Claude Opus 4 at a glance
Claude Opus 4 led SWE-bench and Terminal-bench at launch and can work on long tasks for hours; both models can use tools during extended thinking, and Claude Code reached general availability.
What changed with Claude Opus 4
On May 22, 2025, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, hybrid models with near-instant answers and extended thinking. Anthropic called Opus 4 the best coding model in the world, citing 72.5% on SWE-bench and 43.2% on Terminal-bench, and said it can keep working on long agent tasks for several hours. Sonnet 4 reported 72.7% on SWE-bench.
Both models can use tools such as web search during extended thinking, call tools in parallel, and keep memory files when given local file access. Pricing stayed at $15/$75 per million input/output tokens for Opus 4 and $3/$15 for Sonnet 4, on the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI. Claude Code became generally available with VS Code and JetBrains extensions, GitHub Actions support and a Claude Code SDK.
Claude Opus 4 benchmarks and pricing
Values are copied from the linked source on the date shown. They are not IA Compa measurements.
- Input price per 1M tokensas of · Source for Input price per 1M tokens: anthropic.com (opens in a new tab)
- $15.00
- Output price per 1M tokensas of · Source for Output price per 1M tokens: anthropic.com (opens in a new tab)
- $75.00
- Input price per 1M tokens · Claude Sonnet 4as of · Source for Input price per 1M tokens: anthropic.com (opens in a new tab)
- $3.00
- Output price per 1M tokens · Claude Sonnet 4as of · Source for Output price per 1M tokens: anthropic.com (opens in a new tab)
- $15.00
How it compares
Other models in the same category that we have covered, using each model's latest recorded value. (Models)
Where to compare Claude Opus 4
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Why Claude Opus 4 matters for businesses
For businesses, Claude 4 made long-running coding and research agents practical: a model that plans, uses tools and remembers context over hours can take on real project work, while Sonnet 4 kept that capability at a mid-tier price.
Sources for this story
- Introducing Claude 4 (opens in a new tab)Official
Anthropic · anthropic.com
- Claude 4 Opus model page (opens in a new tab)Benchmark
Artificial Analysis · artificialanalysis.ai
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