What are the verified coding and reasoning benchmarks for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6?

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 achieves SWE-bench Verified: 78% (Extended Thinking), LiveCodeBench: 68.5%, AIME: 90%. Verified sources: Claude Opus 4.6 Advanced Evaluations (Anthropic).

How does Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 compare to rival frontier coding models on SWE-bench and pricing?

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 achieves SWE-bench Verified: 78% at $15/$75 per 1M tokens. Direct peer comparison: OpenAI o3 (71.7% SWE-bench, $5/$20); Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (71% SWE-bench, $2.5/$10); xAI Grok 4.20 (58.5% SWE-bench, $2/$8); Claude Sonnet 5 (75.8% SWE-bench, $3/$15).

Does Swarm isolate Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 code edits from other agents?

Yes. Swarm provisions isolated Git worktrees for every session and subagent, preventing file race conditions and keeping your main working tree clean until verification passes.

Can Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 be assigned to specific subagent roles?

Yes. In ~/.swarm/config.json, you can configure Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 as Primary/Planner (DAG task decomposition), Coder (implementation in isolated worktrees), or Finder (read-only symbol search).

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 — Specs, Context & Capabilities

Q: What is the recommended Swarm multi-agent topology for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6?

Swarm recommends Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 as Primary / Planner (Tier 1: Senior Principal Architect). Deconstructs complex requirements into airtight Task Programs with deterministic validation criteria. Best paired with: Gemini 3.8 Flash for subagent execution.

Q: How do I run Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 with Swarm?

Configure Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 via CLI using: swarm ctl model set --provider openrouter --model openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6, or switch models interactively inside the terminal TUI with /models.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 Benchmarks & Agentic Accuracy

Verified primary research & developer preference metrics

Primary Sources Verified

SWE-bench Verified

78%

Extended ThinkingAnthropic Preview ↗

LiveCodeBench

68.5%

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LMSYS Coding Elo

1438Elo

Coding ArenaLMSYS Arena ↗

AIME 2024 / 2025

90%

ThinkingAnthropic Preview ↗

Pricing ($ / 1M tokens)

$15/ $75

$0.5 cached readStandard API Pricing

What This Means in Real Software Development

90.0% score on AIME competition problems demonstrates unmatched multi-hop deductive capability.
78.0% SWE-bench Verified pass rate, finding subtle bugs in deep async pipelines that defeat standard models.
Superior code verification: writes formal assertions and comprehensive test matrices automatically.
High-value model for complex compiler internals, distributed consensus algorithms, and database engines.

Swarm Multi-Agent Topology

Tier 1: Senior Principal ArchitectRole: Primary / Planner

Best Paired With: Gemini 3.8 Flash for subagent execution

Deconstructs complex requirements into airtight Task Programs with deterministic validation criteria.

Git Worktree Isolation Advantage:

Executes deep architectural refactors inside dedicated Git worktrees with 100% test isolation.

What Developers & Practitioners Are Saying

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

Field Consensus

"Frontier reasoning engine designed for mission-critical engineering, formal verification, and complex security audits."

Verified Real-World Strengths

Near-zero hallucination on static analysis and security vulnerability triage
World-class dependency graph planning for multi-stage pipelines
78.0% on SWE-bench Verified with state-of-the-art multi-step planning

Production Caveats & Gaps

High per-token cost makes uncurated context dumps expensive
Thinking tokens add latency to interactive CLI turns

Primary Sources & Methodology Citations

Claude Opus 4.6 Advanced Evaluations — Anthropic (February 2026)

Head-to-Head Frontier Comparisons: Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Rivals

Standardized, side-by-side benchmark & economics comparison against peer models

Flagship Comparative Matrix

Model	Role / Tier	SWE-bench	LiveCodeBench	LMSYS Elo	AIME	Input / Output
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6OpenRouterCurrent	Tier 1: Senior Principal Architect	78%	68.5%	1438	90%	$15 / $75
OpenAI o3OpenAI Compare Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs OpenAI o3 →	Tier 1: Frontier Architect & Deductive Specialist	71.7%	76.2%	1415	92.4%	$5 / $20
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle Compare Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview →	Tier 1: Frontier Large-Context Architect	71%	62.4%	1395	86.5%	$2.5 / $10
xAI Grok 4.20xAI Compare Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs xAI Grok 4.20 →	Tier 1: Frontier Systems Specialist	58.5%	54.2%	1375	76%	$2 / $8
Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic Compare Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Sonnet 5 →	Tier 1: Master Architect	75.8%	67.2%	1435	87.5%	$3 / $15

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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 model overview

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 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: 1M tokens
Thinking support: off · low · medium · high · max
Availability status: Available
Catalog ID: openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6

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Run Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 in Swarm

Verified CLI workflow & multi-agent architecture

Quickstart Guide →

bash — swarm run

$swarm ctl model set --provider openrouter --model openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6

# Or switch interactively inside the terminal TUI:

>/models

Subagent Role Matrix

Assign Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 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.

System Agent Roles →Why Swarm Architecture →