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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s frontier reasoning model optimized for complex software engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It offers strong multimodal capabilities, competitive performance across real-world coding and...

Provider
OpenRouter
Availability
Available
Model ID
anthropic/claude-opus-4.5
Snapshot
2026-10-07
Evaluation Verdict

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic's flagship deep reasoning engine (76.5% SWE-bench, 88.2% AIME 2024), specialized in deep systems architecture, complex theorem proving, and critical security audits.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 Benchmarks & Agentic Accuracy

Verified primary research & developer preference metrics

Primary Sources Verified
SWE-bench Verified
76.5%
Extended ThinkingAnthropic Technical Preview ↗
LiveCodeBench
66.8%
ThinkingLiveCodeBench ↗
LMSYS Coding Elo
1425Elo
Coding ArenaLMSYS Arena ↗
AIME 2024 / 2025
88.2%
ThinkingAnthropic Technical Preview ↗
Pricing ($ / 1M tokens)
$15/ $75
$0.5 cached readStandard API Pricing

What This Means in Real Software Development

  • Exceptional multi-step logical deduction (88.2% on AIME 2024, 74.5% on GPQA Diamond).
  • Solves 76.5% of real-world GitHub issues on SWE-bench Verified with exhaustive edge-case test generation.
  • Uncompromising analytical depth, making it the supreme choice for cryptographic, protocol, and kernel refactoring.
  • Priced at $15.00/M input, it is designed for highest-leverage architectural review and planning.

Swarm Multi-Agent Topology

Tier 1: Senior Principal ArchitectRole: Primary / Planner

Best Paired With: Gemini 3.8 Flash for fast subagent execution

Supreme model for high-stakes system architecture, zero-day security auditing, and critical algorithm proofs.

Git Worktree Isolation Advantage:

Audits Swarm worktree diffs for subtle race conditions, deadlocks, and memory leaks before promotion.

What Developers & Practitioners Are Saying

Real-world field observations, production strengths, and developer consensus

Field Consensus

"A major generational leap in frontier architectural reasoning, combining deep reflection with massive context coherence for enterprise codebases."

Verified Real-World Strengths

  • Exceptional multi-repo architectural synthesis and dependency mapping
  • High reasoning depth on intricate distributed systems design and protocols
  • Ultra-stable tool calling syntax across hundreds of autonomous turns

Production Caveats & Gaps

  • Premium pricing tier requiring disciplined subagent delegation
  • Output speed optimized for depth rather than high-frequency typing
Benchmark Reality Check

What the benchmark tests: Evaluates multi-system architectural refactoring and rigorous proof generation in complex codebases.

Production caveat: Best leveraged as a top-level planner; delegating file search to it burns budget without latency benefits.

Primary Sources & Methodology Citations

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 model overview

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 is listed in the public Swarm catalog through OpenRouter. This page summarizes the verified catalog fields used by Swarm without claiming real-time access for every provider account.

Provider
OpenRouter
Family
OpenRouter
Context window
200K tokens
Thinking support
off
Availability status
Available
Catalog ID
openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.5
  • File input
  • Image input
  • Text input
  • Text output
  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Structured output
  • JSON

Run Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 in Swarm

Verified CLI workflow & multi-agent architecture

Quickstart Guide →
bash — swarm run
$swarm ctl model set --provider openrouter --model openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.5

# Or switch interactively inside the terminal TUI:

>/models

Subagent Role Matrix

Assign Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 to specialized system roles in ~/.swarm/config.json:

  • Primary / Planner: Orchestrates full task DAGs and multi-stage pipelines.
  • Coder Subagent: Generates code and unit tests inside private Git worktrees.
  • Finder Subagent: Performs read-only code search, symbol discovery, and mapping.
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