Claude Opus 4.6 leads on the shared-benchmark average
Ahead on 3 of 6 shared benchmarks, averaging 1.7 points higher
Summarised only from the 6 percentage-scale benchmarks scored by every selected model; details are below. A further 2 historical, reverse-direction or differently scaled metrics are excluded; indexes, cost and time are not added to accuracy percentages.
“Best available” takes each model’s best recorded non-parallel result in the metric’s stated direction per benchmark, so it may combine modes into a virtual configuration that does not exist. Read it with the mode breakdown.

Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
Benchmark-by-benchmark comparison. Changing the thinking mode or tool filters updates the chart and table below.
“Best available” picks the best non-parallel result in the metric’s stated direction separately for each benchmark. The resulting series can combine several reasoning levels and is not one reproducible runtime configuration. Choose a mode filter to compare like-for-like runs.
Data sourced primarily from official releases (GitHub, Hugging Face, papers), then benchmark leaderboards, then third-party evaluators. Learn about our data methodology
Each axis is the mean percentage score of one benchmark domain. It is an average, not a capability rating.
Relative edge: Agent能力评测 +0.5 / Relative gap: 科学与综合推理 -5.5
Relative edge: 科学与综合推理 +5.5 / Relative gap: Agent能力评测 -0.5
Method: for each model and benchmark, all scores in the current mode scope are averaged (not the best score), then those benchmark scores are averaged within each domain. Only benchmarks scored on a 0-100 scale by at least two of the selected models count — Elo and rating-scale benchmarks such as Codeforces or Arena are excluded, because averaging a 1500 rating with an 85% accuracy produces a meaningless number. Missing values are not counted as zero, and the averages are unweighted, so domains with harder benchmarks read lower.
Every model and runtime mode, benchmark by benchmark. Values are comparable along a row, not between different benchmarks.
22 benchmarks with comparable scores. Each model shows its best score; mode label is displayed below.
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
86.50Thinking Level · High | Tools | 92.00Extended Thinking | |
60.42Thinking Level · High | Tools | 66.30Extended Thinking | |
3.10Thinking Level · High | 12.60Thinking Level · High | |
49.00Thinking Enabled | Tools | 53.00Extended Thinking | Tools | |
75.32Thinking Level · High | 74.52Thinking Level · High | |
89.90Thinking Enabled | 91.31Extended Thinking | |
79.60Thinking Enabled | 80.84Extended Thinking | Tools | |
1804.20Standard Mode | 1804.10Standard Mode | |
8.3016K | 22.90Thinking Level · High | |
53.00Thinking Level · High | Tools | 48.50Standard Mode | Tools | |
97.90Thinking Enabled | Tools | 99.25Extended Thinking | Tools | |
34.40Thinking Level · High | Tools | 27.32Thinking Level · High | Tools | |
56.60Thinking Level · High | 94.00Extended Thinking | |
74.70Thinking Enabled | Tools | 84.00Thinking Enabled | Tools | |
69.50Standard Mode | Tools | 76.80Thinking Level · High | Tools | |
72.50Thinking Enabled | Tools | 72.70Extended Thinking | Tools | |
59.10Thinking Enabled | Tools | 65.40Extended Thinking | Tools | |
82.82Thinking Level · High | 85.19Thinking Level · Medium | |
80.00Thinking Enabled | 78.00Thinking Level · High | |
88.00Thinking Enabled | Tools | 87.40Thinking Enabled | Tools | |
62.68Thinking Level · High | 69.90Thinking Level · High | |
75.60Thinking Enabled | Tools | 77.30Thinking Enabled | Tools |
Official list prices per model API, split by input and output. Unit: USD per 1M tokens.
Architecture, licensing and API modalities. "Not provided" means the field is missing from our database.
| Features & specs | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
Core specsRelease | 2026-02-17 | 2026-02-05 |
Context length | 1M | 1000K |
Max output length | 8,192 tokens | 65,536 tokens |
Architecture | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
Runtime modes | 关闭开启深度 | 关闭低中高扩展 |
Availability & licensingCode availability | Not public | Not public |
Weight availability | Not public | Not public |
Use & commercial terms | Official service only; subject to provider terms | Official service only; subject to provider terms |
Local deploymentWeight size | Not provided | 0B |
VRAM for weights | Not provided | Not provided |
API modality supportText Input/Output | Input:YesOutput:Yes | Input:YesOutput:Yes |
Image Input/Output | Input:YesOutput:No | Input:YesOutput:No |
ResourcesPaper / report | Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Introducing Claude Opus 4.6 |

Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic