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Claude Opus 4.6

Frontier rank
#12
of 25 tracked
Frontier score
40
100 = #1 on every board
Best placing
#3
Hard problems
Released
Feb 5
Claude Opus 4.6 · 2026
Claude Opus 4.6 against the field

Benchmarks

Frontier scoreAverage placing, 100 = #1 everywhere
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.597
  2. #2GPT-6 Astra95
  3. #3Claude Fable 5.184
  4. #4Gemini 4 Argon83
  5. #5GPT-6.1 Sol82
  6. #6Claude Opus 575
  7. #7GPT-6 Sol71
  8. #8Claude Fable 550
  9. #12Claude Opus 4.640
OverallArena Elo
  1. #1Gemini 4 Argon1534
  2. #2Claude Opus 5.51515
  3. #3Claude Fable 5.11510
  4. #4Claude Opus 51507
  5. #5Claude Opus 4.61503
Hard problemsArena Elo
  1. #1Gemini 4 Argon1548
  2. #2Claude Opus 5.51535
  3. #3Claude Opus 4.61527
  4. #4Claude Opus 51526
  5. #5Claude Fable 5.11526
CodingArena Elo
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51813
  2. #2GPT-6 Astra1786
  3. #3Claude Sonnet 5.51774
  4. #4GPT-6.1 Sol1755
  5. #5Claude Fable 5.11744
  6. #36Claude Opus 4.61547
AgentsAgent score

Claude Opus 4.6 isn't on this board yet.

Arena leaderboards

Where it places

BoardPlacingScoreVotes
Overall#51503 Elo79,415
Hard problems#31527 Elo50,602
Coding#361547 Elo19,434
AgentsNot on this board

From blind head-to-head votes on Arena, published Oct 9, 2026. Variants (high, max) count once at their best.

From the lab's own announcement

Release

Claude Opus 4.6
Released Feb 5, 2026
✓ Anthropic →
↑ #11 MiMo V2.6 Pro#13 Qwen 3.8 ↓