Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking, High): benchmark results

Claude Opus 4.6 evaluated with thinking enabled at high reasoning effort. Provider: Anthropic. Released 2026-02-05. Access: API.

Aggregate Rating 1809 ± 22, rank #122 of 2168 rated models, from 30 benchmark results.

Strongest benchmark results

BenchmarkScoreMetricPercentile
Generalization V2 (Lechmazur)80.6Inverse-Rank Score100
Persuasion (Lechmazur)1.67Average Persuasion Strength92.9
LiveBench Olympiad92.17Score89.3
Buyout Game (Lechmazur)1759.7Bradley-Terry Rating88.6
LiveBench76.79LiveBench average (imported)87.2
NYT Connections Extended92.1Score (%)85.8
Position Bias (Lechmazur)30.2Order Flip % (lower is better)85.7
LiveBench Logic With Navigation80Score75.7
LiveBench Typos84Score73.6
LiveBench Code Generation80.28Score72.1
LiveBench Theory of Mind82.69Score69.3
LiveBench Plot Unscrambling66.48Score68.6

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