claude-opus-4-6
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About this model
Claude Opus 4.6 is the latest version of Anthropic’s most intelligent model, and the world’s best model for coding, enterprise agents, and professional work.
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.