Anthropic Models
Safety-first AI • Constitutional AI approach
Claude Haiku 5.5
Released October 2026
The final model of the Claude 5.5 wave and Anthropic's cheapest, fastest, most capable small model, built for high-volume, latency-sensitive work such as classification, extraction, routing, and computer use
Claude Opus 5.5
Released September 2026
Anthropic's recommended default for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work — Fable 5.1-level performance on most tasks at Opus pricing, and the first release of the 5.5 wave
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Released September 2026
The second model of the Claude 5.5 wave and Anthropic's fastest Sonnet yet — a lower-cost complement to Opus 5.5 for well-scoped everyday tasks, bug fixing, and polished documents, slides, and spreadsheets
Claude Fable 5.1
Released September 2026
Anthropic's most intelligent generally available model, built for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work that fixes root causes rather than symptoms
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Released September 2025
Anthropic's most capable model with breakthrough performance across all tasks
Claude Mythos 5.1
Released September 2026
The same model as Claude Fable 5.1, offered by invitation only through Project Glasswing for vetted cybersecurity-defense and life-sciences work that Anthropic's public safeguards would otherwise block
Claude Opus 5
Released July 2026
Anthropic's flagship for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, approaching Fable 5 on most benchmarks at half the cost per token
Claude Fable 5
Released June 2026
Anthropic's most capable generally available Claude model for ambitious, long-running knowledge work and coding projects
Claude Sonnet 5
Released June 2026
Anthropic's best balance of speed and intelligence, reaching near-Opus quality on coding and agentic work
Claude Mythos 5
Released June 2026
The same underlying model as Claude Fable 5 with its cyber safeguards lifted, launched for a small group of cyberdefenders and infrastructure providers through Project Glasswing, in collaboration with the US government
Claude Opus 4.8
Released May 2026
Anthropic's most capable model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agentic coding, and high-autonomy professional work
Claude Opus 4.7
Released April 2026
Anthropic's most capable commercial model with frontier coding, vision, and long-horizon agentic performance
Claude Mythos Preview
Released April 2026
Anthropic's gated frontier research preview with step-change autonomous cybersecurity capabilities (Project Glasswing access only)
Claude Opus 4.6
Released February 2026
Anthropic's most advanced model with adaptive thinking and frontier-level reasoning across all domains
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Released February 2026
Anthropic's default model for Claude.ai with excellent balance of capability and speed
Claude Opus 4.5
Released November 2025
Anthropic's most powerful frontier model with exceptional reasoning, coding, and scientific capabilities
Claude 4.5 Haiku
Released October 2025
Anthropic's fastest model with enhanced capabilities and efficiency
Claude 4.1 Opus
Released August 2025
Anthropic's most advanced model with enhanced capabilities
Claude 4 Sonnet
Released May 2025
Anthropic's next-generation balanced model with superior coding and reasoning
Claude 4 Opus
Released May 2025
World's best coding model with multi-hour agentic workflows
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Released October 2024
Anthropic's fastest and most cost-effective Claude 3.5 model
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Released June 2024
Anthropic's enhanced Claude 3.5 with improved reasoning and coding
Claude 3 Opus
Released March 2024
Anthropic's most capable model with exceptional reasoning abilities
Claude 3 Sonnet
Released March 2024
Anthropic's balanced model offering strong performance and speed
Claude 3 Haiku
Released March 2024
Anthropic's fastest model optimized for speed and efficiency
Claude Instant
Released August 2023
Anthropic's previous generation fast model
Claude 2
Released July 2023
Previous generation Claude with strong safety focus