Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work, succeeding Claude Opus 5. It is particularly strong at multi-step changes in large codebases, code review and bug finding, financial and scientific analysis, and reading dense charts, diagrams, and screenshots, and it is more careful than its predecessor about only stating figures and citing sources it can back up.
The model completes comparable tasks in fewer steps and with fewer tokens than Opus 5, and reports on its work in plainer language, with clear updates on what it did, what it found, and what it needs from the user. Thinking is always adaptive, so effort is the main lever for trading off depth, latency, and cost, and lower effort settings remain effective for latency-sensitive workloads.
Providers
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).
| $4.00 | $20.00 | $0.20 | 2.61s | 85 tok/s | ||
| $4.00 | $20.00 | $0.20 | 2.70s | 79 tok/s | ||
| $4.00 | $20.00 | $0.20 | 2.75s | 86 tok/s | ||
| $4.00 | $20.00 | $0.20 | 4.18s | 65 tok/s | ||
| $4.00 | $20.00 | $0.20 | 2.76s | 85 tok/s | ||
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| $4.40 | $22.00 | $0.22 | 4.01s | 86 tok/s | ||
| $4.40 | $22.00 | $0.22 | 4.40s | 68 tok/s | ||
| $4.40 | $22.00 | $0.22 | 0.78s | -- | ||
| $4.40 | $22.00 | $0.22 | 1.81s | 75 tok/s | ||
| $4.40 | $22.00 | $0.22 | 3.02s | 77 tok/s | ||
Fast | $8.00 | $40.00 | $0.40 | 1.60s | 192 tok/s | |
- Input $4.00 / Output $20.0085 tok/s99.01% uptime
- Input $4.00 / Output $20.0079 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $4.00 / Output $20.0086 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $4.00 / Output $20.0065 tok/s99.95% uptime
- Input $4.00 / Output $20.0085 tok/s99.05% uptime
- Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
- Input $4.40 / Output $22.0086 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $4.40 / Output $22.0068 tok/s99.66% uptime
- Input $4.40 / Output $22.00-- tok/s-- uptime
- Input $4.40 / Output $22.0075 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $4.40 / Output $22.0077 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $8.00 / Output $40.00192 tok/s98.72% uptimeFast
Pricing
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Weighted average
Claude Opus 5.5 — Price history
| $0.588 | $20.00 | 91.5% | 36.1% | ||
| $0.709 | $20.00 | 88.6% | 27.3% | ||
| $0.785 | $20.00 | 86.9% | 9.7% | ||
| $0.885 | $20.00 | 87.9% | 22.5% | ||
| $1.366 | $20.00 | 75.6% | 0.4% | ||
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used | |||||
| $0.380 | $22.00 | 97.7% | 2.1% | ||
| $0.524 | $22.00 | 95.1% | 0.2% | ||
| $0.738 | $22.00 | 89.5% | 0.8% | ||
| $0.782 | $22.00 | 89.0% | 0.2% | ||
Fast | $1.164 | $40.00 | 91.8% | 0.6% | |
| $4.399 | $22.00 | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||
- Effective in $0.588 / Effective out $20.00Token share36.1%
- Effective in $0.709 / Effective out $20.00Token share27.3%
- Effective in $0.785 / Effective out $20.00Token share9.7%
- Effective in $0.885 / Effective out $20.00Token share22.5%
- Effective in $1.366 / Effective out $20.00Token share0.4%
- Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
- Effective in $0.380 / Effective out $22.00Token share2.1%
- Effective in $0.524 / Effective out $22.00Token share0.2%
- Effective in $0.738 / Effective out $22.00Token share0.8%
- Effective in $0.782 / Effective out $22.00Token share0.2%
- Effective in $1.164 / Effective out $40.00FastToken share0.6%
- Effective in $4.399 / Effective out $22.00Token share0.0%
Performance
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
P50, best across providers
P50, best provider
Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Availability over the last 3 days
Last 72 hoursAvailability over the last 24 hours
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) Intelligence Index | 59.1 |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) HLE | 61.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) AA-LCR | 84.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) GDPval-AA | 68.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) CritPt | 31.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) SciCode | 66.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 59.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 65.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 49.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) Intelligence Index | 34.8 |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) HLE | 48.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) AA-LCR | 80.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) GDPval-AA | 37.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) CritPt | 17.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) SciCode | 58.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 31.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 63.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 33.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) Intelligence Index | 57.4 |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) HLE | 57.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) AA-LCR | 84.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) GDPval-AA | 66.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) CritPt | 31.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) SciCode | 65.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 59.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 65.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 35.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) Intelligence Index | 51.8 |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) HLE | 55.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) AA-LCR | 82.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) GDPval-AA | 60.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) CritPt | 30.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) SciCode | 60.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 56.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 64.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 36.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback) Intelligence Index | 48.2 |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback) HLE | 54.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback) AA-LCR | 84.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback) GDPval-AA | 54.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback) CritPt | 27.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback) SciCode | 59.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 52.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 63.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 5.5 (Medium, Default Fallback) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 33.1% |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Agents Arena Androidnative Elo | 1397 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Agents Arena Blender3d Elo | 1255 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Agents Arena Codetovideo Elo | 1335 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Agents Arena Full Stack Elo | 1390 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Agents Arena Mobile Apps Elo | 1296 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Agents Arena Pdf Elo | 1308 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Agents Arena Spreadsheet Elo | 1381 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Agents Arena Webapps Elo | 1317 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Models Arena 3D Elo | 1459 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Models Arena Asciiart Elo | 1354 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Models Arena Code Categories Elo | 1384 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Models Arena Data Visualization Elo | 1387 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Models Arena Game Development Elo | 1427 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Models Arena SVG Elo | 1322 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Models Arena UI Component Elo | 1379 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 5.5 Models Arena Website Elo | 1325 |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Access to Justice Benchmark | 73.8% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 BioMysteryBench | 79.3% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 ClaimBench | 100.0% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Code Migration v1.1 | 81.0% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 CyberBench v1.1 | 55.4% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 CyberOffense | 77.1% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 EMB v1.1 | 75.8% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Finance Agent v2.1 | 67.8% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Vals Finance Index | 65.3% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Financial Coaching Bench | 76.2% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 HLAB-Vals-1.1 | 9.2% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Immigration | 72.1% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 IOI | 95.1% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Vals Legal Index | 72.4% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Legal Research Bench | 50.5% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 MedCode | 49.8% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 MedScribe | 91.4% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 MysteryMechanism | 49.5% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 ProgramBench | 18.5% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 ProofBench v1.1 | 100.0% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Public Benefits Bench v1.1 | 70.6% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Robo-bench | 14.6% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Vals RSI Index | 37.3% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 SAGE | 91.3% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Vals Science Index | 58.7% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 SRE Bench | 33.6% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 SWE-bench Multimodal | 70.2% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Tax Agent Bench | 44.5% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 65.2% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Terminal-Bench-Science | 47.1% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Vals Index | 70.1% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Vibe Code Bench 1-100 | 30.4% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | 90.3% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 5.5 Vals Web Search Index | 53.7% |
Apps
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
API
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Anthropic: Claude Opus versions
Available through EU in-region routing
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).
- Providers in Europe
- Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex
- Prices in Europe
- Amazon Bedrock: $4.40/M tokens input, $22/M tokens output
- Google Vertex: $4.40/M tokens input, $22/M tokens output
- Base URL
https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1- Plan
- Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing
Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs
Documentation
Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 on OpenRouter.
- Claude 5.5 Migration GuideCookbook
- Best OCR Model for Scanned Documents, MeasuredBlog post
- Claude Opus vs Sonnet vs Haiku: Which Should You Use?Blog post
- How Much Does Claude Code Cost? Real Session Costs by ModelBlog post
- Hit Your Claude Code Usage Limit? How to Keep CodingBlog post
- Claude 529 Overloaded: What It Means and How to Fix ItBlog post
Frequently asked questions
Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work, succeeding Claude Opus 5. It is particularly strong at multi-step changes in large codebases, code review and bug finding, financial and scientific analysis, and reading dense charts, diagrams, and screenshots, and it is more careful than its predecessor about only stating figures and...
The Claude Opus 5.5 documentation on OpenRouter includes the Claude 5.5 Migration Guide cookbook, the Best OCR Model for Scanned Documents, Measured blog post, the Claude Opus vs Sonnet vs Haiku: Which Should You Use? blog post, the How Much Does Claude Code Cost? Real Session Costs by Model blog post, the Hit Your Claude Code Usage Limit? How to Keep Coding blog post, and the Claude 529 Overloaded: What It Means and How to Fix It blog post. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.
Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4.00/M input tokens and $20.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.20/M tokens, Cache Write at $5.00/M tokens, and Cache Write (1h) at $8.00/M tokens.
Claude Opus 5.5 has a 1,000,000 token context window. It supports up to 128,000 completion tokens.
Yes. Claude Opus 5.5 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
Claude Opus 5.5 accepts text, images, and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.
Claude Opus 5.5 is served by 5 providers on OpenRouter: Amazon Bedrock, Azure, Google Vertex, Claude Platform on AWS, and Anthropic. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.
Claude Opus 5.5 was released on September 22, 2026.