Claude Opus 4.6: benchmark results

Uses adaptive thinking to spend more reasoning on difficult steps. Its deeper checking can slow simple tasks; Anthropic recommends lowering effort when it overthinks. Provider: Anthropic. Released 2026-02-05. Access: API.

Aggregate Rating 1806 ± 2, rank #63 of 1656 rated models, from 2841 benchmark results.

Strongest benchmark results

BenchmarkScoreMetricPercentile
AA Global-MMLU-Lite - Chinese93.58Accuracy (%)100
AA Global-MMLU-Lite - English95.17Accuracy (%)100
AA Global-MMLU-Lite - Korean93Accuracy (%)100
AEC-Bench (Nomic Tools) - Sheet Index Consistency85.5Mean reward (0-100) from the task verifier on the 14 sheet-i100
AEC-Bench - Submittal Review17.1Mean reward (0-100) from the task verifier on the 36 submitt100
AGC-Bench - poetmt1.55Dataset z-score100
AGC-Bench - sdat0.68Dataset z-score100
AISI Cyber Cooling Tower 100M1.4Avg Steps (/7)100
ARC-AGI-2 Verified (Opus 4.6 System Card)68.8Score (%)100
ARFBench - Presence88.3Accuracy (%) on the 111 Presence questions (is there an anom100
ATLAS70.55ATLAScore (self-reported)100
Agent2 RL-Bench - ALFWorld97.76ALFWorld success rate (%) on 134 evaluation episodes of the 100

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