Claude Opus 5.5 (High Effort) Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Model summary

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) is amongst the leading models in intelligence, but somewhat expensive when comparing to other models of similar price. It's also faster than average and fairly concise. The model supports text and image input, outputs text, and has a 1M tokens context window.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among comparable models (median: 25). When evaluating the Intelligence Index, it generated 53M tokens, which is fairly concise in comparison to the median of 92M.

Pricing for Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) is $4.00 per 1M input tokens (somewhat expensive, median: $2.00) and $20.00 per 1M output tokens (somewhat expensive, median: $10.00). In total, it cost $2172.43 to evaluate Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) on the Intelligence Index.

At 91 tokens per second, Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) is faster than average (71).

Metrics are compared against models of the same class:

- Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models

- Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning

- Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:

- Tiny: ≤4B parameters

- Small: 4B–40B parameters

- Medium: 40B–150B parameters

- Large: >150B parameters

- Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:

- <$0.15 per 1M tokens

- $0.15–$1 per 1M tokens

- >$1 per 1M tokens

Highlights

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

Intelligence Evaluations

AA-Briefcase v1.1Updated

AA-Briefcase Elo

AA-Omniscience

AA-Omniscience Index

Intelligence Index Comparisons

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Token Use

Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Context Window

Context Window

Speed

Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)

Output Speed

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Latency

Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token

Latency: Time To First Answer Token

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed

End-to-End Response Time

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback)

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) was released on September 17, 2026.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) was created by Anthropic.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among other reasoning models in a similar price tier (median: 25).

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) generates output at 90.7 tokens per second (based on Anthropic's API), which is above average compared to other reasoning models in a similar price tier (median: 71.0 t/s).

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) has a time to first token (TTFT) of 12.49s (based on Anthropic's API), which is somewhat higher than average compared to other reasoning models in a similar price tier (median: 3.86s).

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) costs $4.00 per 1M input tokens (somewhat higher than average, median: $2.00) and $20.00 per 1M output tokens (somewhat higher than average, median: $10.00), based on Anthropic's API.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) costs $4.00 per 1M input tokens and $20.00 per 1M output tokens (based on Anthropic's API). For a blended rate (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio), this is $2.94 per 1M tokens. Pricing may vary by provider. Compare provider pricing

When evaluated on the Intelligence Index, Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) generated 53M output tokens, which is better than average compared to other reasoning models in a similar price tier (median: 92M).

Yes, Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) is a reasoning model. It uses extended thinking or chain-of-thought reasoning to work through complex problems before providing an answer.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) supports text and image input.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) supports text output.

Yes, Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) supports image input and can analyze, describe, and answer questions about images.

Yes, Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) is multimodal. It can process text and image input and generate text output.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) has a context window of 1.0M tokens. This determines how much text and conversation history the model can process in a single request.

No, Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) is proprietary. The model weights are not publicly available.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) is a proprietary model and Anthropic has not disclosed the model size or parameter count.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort, Default Fallback) achieves a score of 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. This composite benchmark evaluates models across reasoning, knowledge, mathematics, and coding.