Model Detail
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4
—Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 is a multimodal model released by Anthropic. And supports text+image+file->text inputs.
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 reports a Chatbot Arena ELO of 1,424 across 36,861 votes. Other benchmark slots are still empty in our dataset, so this single figure is best read as a partial picture rather than a full evaluation.
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 is priced at $15/M input tokens and $75/M output tokens. Operationally the model offers a 410K-token context window, which matters when sizing it for prompt-heavy or latency-sensitive workloads. This is frontier pricing, so cost-fit usually depends on whether the per-call quality justifies running a smaller commodity model two or three times to compare.
The published knowledge cutoff is 2025-01-31, so newer events will not be reflected in zero-shot answers without retrieval.
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 is best fit for mixed text-and-image reasoning tasks such as document understanding, and long-context tasks such as full-codebase analysis or book-length summarization (410K tokens). It is a less obvious choice for cost-sensitive batch processing where a commodity-tier model could be retried cheaply. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.
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