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Anthropic · August 22, 2026

Anthropic's deepest reasoning model, optimized for long-horizon agentic tasks, coding, and careful analysis with a large context window.

Company
Anthropic
Release date
Aug 22, 2026
Model type
Reasoning
Pricing
API priced per token; higher than Sonnet tier
Context window
500K tokens

Capabilities

Deep reasoningAgentic tasksCode generationLong contextTool use

Tags

ReasoningAgenticCoding

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