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Claude Opus 4.6

Strong long-form reasoning and coding model with robust instruction quality.

verifiedRecently verifiedSource: openrouter-rankings
Health medium (36)

Best for

  • High-stakes reasoning and enterprise copilots.

Limitations

  • May be slower on large contexts compared to speed-optimized models.
  • Premium tier pricing for highest throughput.

Use carefully when

  • Ultra-low-latency, low-cost bulk generation workloads.

Quickstart

  1. Use concise system instructions and explicit output schema.
  2. Route low-priority tasks to cheaper fallback model.

Setup checklist

  • • API key required: Yes
  • • SDK quality: high
  • • Self-host difficulty: hard

Health Meter

  • • Setup complexity: 52
  • • Safety & misuse risk: 33
  • • License/compliance risk: 18

Good baseline for controlled deployment.

Capabilities

  • contextTokens200000
  • toolCallingtrue
  • structuredOutputtrue
  • functionCallingtrue

Benchmarks

sweBenchVerified
76.8
reasoningComposite
91.2
safetyEval
88.7

Community reviews

0 reviews • avg -

Samples

Compliance memo

Generate bilingual rollout memo with risk controls.

Last verified: 25/2/2026, 3:45:28 am • Source: https://openrouter.ai/rankings
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