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Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 as an upgrade to Opus 4 for agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- Anthropic
- Launch date
- August 5, 2025
- Launch type
- Model Release
- Category
- AI Coding Tools
- Audience
- Developers, Enterprises, Researchers
- Pricing
- Available to paid Claude users, Claude Code, Anthropic API, and cloud partners at the same pricing as Opus 4 at launch.
- Free plan
- No
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- No
Launch Context
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Verification & Sources
- Status
- Verified
- Source links
- 2
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: verified June 8, 2026
- Last verified
- June 8, 2026
- Last updated
- June 11, 2026
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Kingy Launch Score
7.4 / 10 · Solid
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Why this score
- Source & verification 7.5/10 — The release announcement plus the Claude model documentation — dated, single-vendor sourcing. anthropic.com
- Product evidence 8.0/10 — Shipped to paid Claude, Claude Code, the API, and cloud partners, with model docs. platform.claude.com
- Significance & novelty 7.0/10 — An upgrade to Opus 4 targeting agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning — meaningful but iterative. anthropic.com
- Traction signals not scored — insufficient sourced evidence
- Offer clarity 7.0/10 — Launched at the same pricing as Opus 4 across paid Claude, the API, and cloud partners. anthropic.com
Evidence checked 2026-07-10
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Kingy AI Take
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 as an upgrade to Opus 4 for agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning, at the same pricing as its predecessor across paid Claude, Claude Code, the API, and cloud partners (anthropic.com). Developers and Enterprises running complex refactoring and high-rigor analysis were the target. Improvement claims are vendor-stated, so benchmark the upgrade on your own repositories before switching defaults.
Who it is for
Developers and enterprises using Claude for complex code refactoring, debugging, agentic search, and high-rigor analysis.
Traction notes
A meaningful follow-up for Claude Code and enterprise coding workflows.
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