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Launched February 5, 2026 by Anthropic. Opus 4.6 introduced adaptive thinking (the model decides how long to reason before answering), a 1M-token context window in beta, and up to 128K output tokens - at release it posted the highest agentic-coding scores Anthropic had ever shipped.
On the All-inclusive plan an Opus 4.6 reply costs 5 credits - the premium tier, priced like the heavyweight it is.
Benchmarks
- SWE-bench Verified (real GitHub issue fixing): 80.8% - state of the art at launch.
- Terminal-Bench 2.0 (agentic terminal work): 65.4%.
- OSWorld (agentic computer use): 72.7%.
- SWE-bench Multilingual: 77.8%.
Best at on Magnus
Give Opus to your strategist agent: goal planning, long-document drafting, contract review, and debate rounds where you want the strongest argument in the room. It runs the full Claude toolset - integrations, live web search, native PDF reading - with the most headroom for multi-step work.
- Pick it per-agent in the agent's settings, or switch your main model in Settings → model. A common setup: Haiku 4.5 for quick-fire chat, Opus 4.6 for the strategist.