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• Diverse range of specialized models catering to niche or broad use cases.
• Typically validated by providers themselves, with integration guidelines provided by Azure.
• Community-driven innovation and rapid availability of cutting-edge models.
• Standard Azure AI integration, with support and maintenance managed by the respective providers.

Key capabilities

About this model

Key model capabilities

• Adaptive thinking is an upgrade to extended thinking that gives Claude the freedom to think as much or as little as needed depending on the task and effort level.
• Image & text input: With strong vision capabilities, Claude Opus 4.6 can process images and return text outputs to analyze and understand charts, graphs, technical diagrams, reports, and other visual assets.
• Computer use: Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s most accurate model for computer use, enabling developers to direct Claude to use computers the way people do.
• Advanced tool use: Build agents that can take action with the tool search tool, programmatic tool calling, and tool use examples.

Use cases

Key use cases

• Agents: Opus 4.6 is the world's best model for agentic workflows, orchestrating complex tasks across dozens of tools with industry-leading reliability. It proactively spins up subagents, parallelizes work, and drives tasks forward with minimal oversight.
• Coding: Opus 4.6 is the world's best coding model, excelling at long-horizon projects, complex implementations, and large-scale codebases. It handles the full lifecycle from architecture to deployment—so senior engineers can delegate their most complex work with confidence.
• Enterprise workflows: Opus 4.6 sets the standard for enterprise workflows, powering agents that manage sprawling projects end-to-end with professional polish, domain awareness, and industry-leading performance on spreadsheets, slides, and docs.
• Financial analysis: Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable model for financial workflows, surfacing insights that would take analysts days to compile. It handles the nuance and precision that compliance-sensitive work demands.
• Cybersecurity: Opus 4.6 delivers the deepest reasoning for security workflows, catching subtle patterns and complex attack vectors with unmatched accuracy.
• Computer use: Opus 4.6 is our most capable computer-use model for complex workflows, bringing deep reasoning to multi-step tasks that span multiple applications and require planning and judgment.

Out of scope use cases

Pricing

Technical specs

Training cut-off date

Input formats

Supported language

Supported Azure regions

Sample JSON response

Input

{ "model": "claude-opus-4-6", "max_tokens": 1024, "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hi, who are you?" } ] }

Output

200: { "content": [ { "text": "Hi! My name is Claude.", "type": "text" } ], "id": "msg_013Zva2CMHLNnXjNJJKqJ2EF", "model": "claude-opus-4-6", "role": "assistant", "stop_reason": "end_turn", "stop_sequence": null, "type":
"message", "usage": { "input_tokens": 31, "cache_creation_input_tokens": 0, "cache_read_input_tokens": 0, "cache_creation": { "ephemeral_5m_input_tokens": 0, "ephemeral_1h_input_tokens": 0 }, "output_tokens": 25,
"service_tier": "standard" } }

Error response:

4XX: { "error": { "message": "Invalid request", "type": "invalid_request_error" }, "request_id": "", "type": "error" }

Model architecture

Long context

Optimizing model performance

Additional assets

• Claude Documentation : Visit Claude documentation for a wealth of resources on model capabilities, prompting techniques, use case guidelines, and more.
• Adaptive Thinking Guide : Understand how best to use extended thinking with Claude.
• Claude Prompting Resources : Check out Anthropic's prompting tools and guides to learn how to craft prompts that elicit more helpful, nuanced responses.
• Claude Cookbooks : Check out example code for a variety of complex tasks, such as RAG from various web sources, making SQL queries, function calling, multimodal prompting, and more.

Distribution channels

• Claude API: For developers interested in building agents, Claude Opus 4.6 is available on the Claude Developer Platform.
• Claude Code: Use Claude Opus 4.6 with Anthropic’s industry-leading coding agent, Claude Code.

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