Claude 3 Opus is the highest-capability model in Anthropic’s Claude 3 family announcement, intended for complex analysis and reasoning workloads.
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Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic · Claude family · Text and image as documented for Claude 3
Intelligence Summary
Model- Model intelligence
- Developer Anthropic
- Family Claude
- Modalities Text and image as documented for Claude 3
- API Anthropic API model identifiers.
- Licensing Proprietary under Anthropic terms.
- Deployment Anthropic-hosted and partner distributions.
- Documentation Official docs
- Last reviewed Jul 2026
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Editorial overview
Capabilities
- Complex instruction following and analysis
- Vision inputs where supported
API availability
Anthropic API model identifiers.
Deployment options
Anthropic-hosted and partner distributions.
Limitations
- Typically higher cost/latency than smaller Claude models
- Availability may vary by product tier
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