Anthropic has released Claude 4 Opus, which achieved state-of-the-art results on every major AI reasoning benchmark, surpassing GPT-5.4 and Gemini Ultra 2.0 in multiple categories.

Benchmark Results

Key Improvements

Claude 4 Opus features a 500K token context window, improved instruction following, and significantly reduced hallucination rates. Anthropic credits advances in constitutional AI training and chain-of-thought reasoning.

Pricing

API pricing is $15 per million input tokens and $75 per million output tokens. A free tier is available through claude.ai with usage limits.