Claude Opus 4

Closed weights Anthropic May 2025

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Anthropic
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
22 May 2025

What it does

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Domain
Language, Multimodal, Vision
Task
Code generation, Language modeling/generation, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Instruction interpretation, Mathematical reasoning, Visual puzzles, Code autocompletion, Chat, Character recognition (OCR), Language modeling, Language generation, Text autocompletion, Retrieval-augmented generation, System control

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
API access
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Why it is tracked
Training cost
Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Hybrid reasoning model that pushes the frontier for coding and AI agents, featuring a 200K context window
Last updated
24 April 2026

What the numbers mean

Background

Claude Opus 4 was published by Anthropic, in United States of America, in May 2025. It comes out of industry.

It works in Language, Multimodal, Vision, and is recorded as doing code generation, Language modeling/generation, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Instruction interpretation, Mathematical reasoning, Visual puzzles, Code autocompletion, Chat, Character recognition (OCR), Language modeling, Language generation, Text autocompletion, Retrieval-augmented generation, System control.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Training and provenance

It is tracked in the underlying dataset for one reason in particular: training cost.

Answers

Claude Opus 4 — common questions

01

What is Claude Opus 4 used for?

Claude Opus 4 works in Language, Multimodal, Vision, and is recorded as handling code generation, Language modeling/generation, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Instruction interpretation, Mathematical reasoning, Visual puzzles, Code autocompletion, Chat, Character recognition (OCR), Language modeling, Language generation, Text autocompletion, Retrieval-augmented generation, System control. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

02

What GPU do I need to run Claude Opus 4?

None. Claude Opus 4 is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

03

Is Claude Opus 4 open source?

No. Claude Opus 4 has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

04

How many parameters does Claude Opus 4 have?

No parameter count has been published for Claude Opus 4, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

05

Who created Claude Opus 4?

Claude Opus 4 was published by Anthropic, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

06

When was Claude Opus 4 released?

Claude Opus 4 was published in May 2025.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 24 April 2026

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