








Introducing Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5: The System Card
Claude Opus 5 is trying to be the best of both worlds.

Introducing Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.

Introducing Claude Opus 5
Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.


Prompting Claude Opus 5
Behavioral differences and prompting patterns for Claude Opus 5, covering response verbosity, agentic narration, task scoping, subagent delegation, self-correction, and output artifacts when thinking is disabled.
Claude Opus 5 Is Highly Capable, But Is No Mythos
Claude Opus 5 is a weirder than usual release to evaluate, for two reasons.


Claude Opus 4.7 Is Here: Release Confirmed April 16, 2026
Claude Opus 4.7 shipped April 16, 2026. SWE-bench 87.6%, xhigh mode, /ultrareview, 2,576px vision. Read our full first-look review.




