Claude Opus 4
v20250522Anthropic
Anthropic's most powerful model released May 2025. Exceptional reasoning, coding (72.5-79.4% SWE-bench in high-compute), and agentic capabilities.
Trust Vector Analysis
Dimension Breakdown
🚀Performance & Reliability+
Best-in-class performance. 79.4% SWE-bench in high-compute mode (highest). 90% AIME in high-compute. Exceptional for complex reasoning.
Industry-standard coding benchmarks
PhD-level reasoning benchmarks
Comprehensive knowledge testing
Internal testing
Median latency
Official specification
🛡️Security+
Flagship security with ASL-3 standard and Constitutional AI. Strongest safety guardrails.
OWASP LLM01 testing
Adversarial prompt testing
Privacy policy analysis
Comprehensive safety testing
Security features review
🔒Privacy & Compliance+
Exceptional privacy. Ephemeral data handling, HIPAA eligible, strongest compliance for regulated industries.
Enterprise documentation review
Policy analysis
Terms review
Data protection review
Certification verification
Data handling review
👁️Trust & Transparency+
Excellent transparency with extended thinking and comprehensive system card. Best-in-class guardrails.
Reasoning transparency evaluation
Factual QA testing
Bias benchmark evaluation
Qualitative assessment
Documentation review
Public disclosure review
Safety mechanism analysis
⚙️Operational Excellence+
Flagship operational excellence. Available on API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.
API design review
SDK quality review
Versioning policy review
Monitoring tools review
Support assessment
Ecosystem analysis
License review
- +Highest performance: 79.4% SWE-bench in high-compute (best overall)
- +90% AIME math in high-compute mode (exceptional reasoning)
- +Extended thinking for complex multi-step reasoning
- +Strongest privacy: ephemeral data, HIPAA eligible, ASL-3 security
- +200K context window for large documents
- +Best-in-class Constitutional AI safety guardrails
- !Premium pricing ($15/$75 per 1M tokens)
- !Higher latency (~2.5s p50, 5.5s p95)
- !Training cutoff March 2025
- !Overkill for simple tasks (cost and latency)
- !32K max output vs 64K for Sonnet 4
Use Case Ratings
code generation
Best-in-class coding. 79.4% SWE-bench in high-compute mode. Exceptional for complex software engineering.
customer support
Excellent but potentially over-powered and expensive for standard customer support.
content creation
Exceptional creative writing with nuanced understanding and natural style.
data analysis
Superior analytical capabilities with extended thinking for complex analysis.
research assistant
Outstanding for research. Extended thinking enables deep analysis. 200K context for long documents.
legal compliance
Best for legal work. HIPAA eligible, ephemeral data, ASL-3 security. Careful reasoning.
healthcare
Flagship for healthcare. HIPAA eligible, strongest privacy, careful medical reasoning.
financial analysis
Exceptional for complex financial modeling and analysis. 90% AIME math in high-compute.
education
Excellent for education with patient, detailed explanations and strong knowledge base.
creative writing
Outstanding creative capabilities with nuanced character development and storytelling.