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Claude Opus
Anthropic's most capable AI model in the Claude family, designed for complex reasoning and analysis tasks.
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Versions mentioned
Claude Opus 4.5
(10 mentions)
Claude Opus 4.6
(7 mentions)
Used and recommended
These creators personally use this product and recommend it to others
"I prefer Opus most of the time for this and codeex for coding."
"Claude Opus is the best model ever made. Period. It is fantastic for Claudebot."
"Here's a three-skill system that turns Claude Opus 4.5 from just a coding agent to an army of senior engineers, designers, and writers."
How to get the most out of Claude Opus 4.5
· Dec 2025
1 more mention
Recommended
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Ryan Carson
recommends
"The agents are smart enough now, Opus 4.5 is smart enough now that if you give it good acceptance criteria, it can do it."
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Ras Mic
uses
"Opus 3.5 is amazing. I was using Opus."
Simon Willison
uses
"So I told Claude Opus, I said, 'Here is the code for the OCR, the PDF thing I did. Here's the code for the OCR thing. Build a new thing that can open a PDF file and OCR every page.' And it did it."
An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories ...
· ▶ 1:07:12
· Apr 2026
"I think it's on par with Claude Opus 4.6 and possibly even better."
Owen Jennings
uses
"You basically have Opus 4.6, you have Codex 5.3 and essentially you get this shift where the tools became incredibly capable working with existing complex code bases."
Madhav Jha
uses
"Opus is obviously a workhorse"
"I think it happened with Opus4. That was the inflection point when models started being amazingly good at orchestration and reasoning and tool calls."
Mukund Jha
uses
"Opus is a different class of model right now it's going to enable extremely long horizon task."
Ivan Nedlekovski
uses
"At this point we're all using Cursor with Opus 4.5 and we barely touch any actual programming language"
Live Vibe Check
uses
"I love Claude Opus like Claude in general. I use a lot of Ruby and Ruby on Rails and it's just the best at that"
Jason Calacanis
uses
"They will use Claude 4.6 opus to orchestrate things."
"As a general purpose model, Opus is the best. For OpenClaw, Opus is extremely good in terms of role play."
"And Anthropic released their response, Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.6 Fast."
Morgan Linton
uses
"Opus 4.6 came out and then Sam Altman put together a quick tweet, I want to say like maybe 18 minutes later announcing GPT 5.3 Codex"
Boris Cherny
uses
"I use Opus 4.5 with Thinking for Everything. It's the best coding model I've ever used."
Also mentioned
(13)
Casual references without a clear endorsement
Lenny's Podcast
mentioned
"GPT-5.1 and Claude Opus 4.5 came along, but in a way that crossed a threshold"
▶ 0:04
Simon Willison
mentioned
"in November we had what I call the inflection point where GPT 5.1 and Claude Opus 4.5 came along ..."
▶ 4:36
Vlad Tenev
mentioned
"And recently with Opus 3.5, I'm sure you've seen this as well, many of you in your projects, ther..."
▶ 39:53
Jason Lemkin
mentioned
"in Claude 4 Opus, these swarms of agents got really good. Okay, these swarms of autonomous agents"
▶ 1:09:24
Lex Fridman
mentioned
"Uses whatever AI model you like, including Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex"
▶ 2:48
Nathan Lambert
mentioned
"The hype over Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 model has been absolutely insane, which is just... I me..."
▶ 4:08