Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic · September 22, 2026

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Context Window1M tokens

Description

Anthropic's premier frontier milestone featuring proactive credit assignment, formal tool verification, and deep mathematical reasoning.

Benchmark Scores

MMLUMassive Multitask Language Understanding — 57 subjects
94.1%
HumanEvalCode generation pass@1 — Python problems
96.7%
MATHMATH benchmark — competition-level problems
98.6%
GPQAGraduate-level science QA
83.2%
SWE-benchReal-world software engineering
75.1%

Key Innovations

Reasoning
ReasoningStructured step-by-step problem solving, often using chain-of-thought or tree-of-thought approaches.
Agentic
AgenticModels that can autonomously plan, execute multi-step tasks, use tools, and self-correct without human intervention.
Constitutional AI
Constitutional AIAnthropic's approach to AI safety where the model critiques and revises its own outputs against a set of principles.
Tool Use
Tool UseAbility to call external tools, APIs, and functions — enabling web browsing, code execution, and real-world actions.

Family Tree

Lineage

Claude Mythos 5.1→Claude Opus 5.5

Enabled By

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