Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic · Claude Opus line · flagship

Released September 22, 2026Latest in the line

What changed

Anthropic's new Opus scores 7 points higher than Opus 5 on the all-round index and costs 20% less per token.

Compared with Claude Opus 5 · the model it replaces

Completes two in three hard command-line tasks

Terminal-Bench 4.0 — doing real work in a computer terminal

66.4%

up from 52.3% · +14.1 points

Seven points smarter on the all-round score

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — average of 10 hard tests

58

up from 51 · +7 points

Costs a fifth less than the model it replaces

Price per 1M tokens — what developers pay, input / output

$4 / $20

down from $5 / $25 · 20% cheaper

Where the Claude Opus line stands

Claude Opus 5.5 is the current model in this line. The card shows how long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.

Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic · Claude Opus line · flagship
Just releasedreleased 1 day ago — usual gap is ~60
Released Sep 22, 2026 · what changed →
Days since last release
Claude Opus 5.5 · Sep 22, 2026
1
days
Usual gap
60
days
Recent gaps
Claude Opus 5.5 · Sep 2026
60
Claude Opus 5 · Jul 2026
57
Claude Opus 4.8 · May 2026
42
Claude Opus 4.7 · Apr 2026
70

Every Claude Opus release

Newest first. See the full line with every card →

  1. Sep 22, 2026Claude Opus 5.5 · this page
  2. Jul 24, 2026Claude Opus 5
  3. May 28, 2026Claude Opus 4.8
  4. Apr 16, 2026Claude Opus 4.7
  5. Feb 5, 2026Claude Opus 4.6
  6. Nov 24, 2025Claude Opus 4.5
  7. Aug 5, 2025Claude Opus 4.1
  8. May 22, 2025Claude Opus 4
  9. Mar 4, 2024Claude 3 Opus
  10. Jul 11, 2023Claude 2

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