Claude
Anthropic's thoughtful AI assistant powered by Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M token context
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, now led by Claude Opus 4.6 (released February 2026) — scoring 80.8% on SWE-bench Verified with a 1M token context window. The model family includes Opus 4.6 (frontier), Sonnet 4.6 (near-Opus quality at 1/20th the cost), and Haiku 4.5 (fast and affordable). Claude excels at long-document analysis, nuanced writing, coding, and following complex instructions. Sonnet 4.6 is preferred over the previous Opus 4.5 by 59% of users. Anthropic raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation. Notable: 16 Opus 4.6 agents wrote a C compiler in Rust capable of compiling the Linux kernel.
Last updated: 2026-03-12 00:09:18
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AI Models Powering Claude
3 models from 1 vendor
Claude Opus 4.6
Primary Currentclaude-opus-4-6 Anthropic's flagship model (February 2026). 200K standard context (1M beta, Tier 4 only). 128K max output. Extended thinking and adaptive thinking. Knowledge cutoff May 2025, training data cutoff August 2025.
Claude Haiku 4.5
Currentclaude-haiku-4-5-20251001 Budget model with near-frontier performance. 200K context. 64K max output. Computer use support. Knowledge cutoff February 2025, training data cutoff July 2025.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Currentclaude-sonnet-4-6 Best balance of intelligence, speed, and cost in the Claude family. Default for Claude Code. 200K standard context (1M beta, Tier 4). 64K max output. Knowledge cutoff August 2025, training data cutoff January 2026.
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Claude Pricing
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Claude Features
Code & Development
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Platform & Infrastructure
Claude Pros & Cons
Pros
- + Best-in-class long document analysis with 200K context
- + Excellent writing quality — nuanced and natural
- + Strong on complex reasoning and coding tasks
- + Transparent safety approach and honest about limitations
Cons
- - No native web browsing capability
- - No image generation
- - Smaller plugin ecosystem than ChatGPT
- - Rate limits on free tier can be frustrating
Claude Integrations
Company Info
- Company
- Anthropic
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Deployment
- Cloud
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