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Claude Opus 4.6
by Anthropic
CLOSEDHOSTEDWRITING HELPCODING HELPCOMPLEX TASKSPAID SUBSCRIPTION
RANKED #101 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #172 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 5.9 · 2,815 VOICES
A powerful AI assistant made for complex writing and coding tasks.
HAPPY7.8
403 mentions
SAD7.2
305 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 2,710 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Anthropic hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Claude Opus 4.6 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS6.9
Kimi K3MoonshotPick it for near-frontier multimodal reasoning and coding with a massive 1M context.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE💸 COST EFFICIENT1.7k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS5.4
Llama 4 MaverickMetaAn efficient, community-favorite MoE model that excels at coding and visual reasoning.💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE💸 COST EFFICIENT1.9k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users love Claude Opus 4.6 for its strong coding assistance and natural writing quality. However, many complain about high costs, frequent usage limits, and a tendency to preach or refuse requests.
829 POSTS · 1986 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · STACK OVERFLOW · OTHER FORUMS · LEMMY · X · DEV.TO · GITHUB · BLOG · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (7 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (10 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (6 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (4 mentions)
- It can feel slow (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceA SORE SPOT
6 thumbs up · 10 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
7 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMIXED FEELINGS
3 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- SpeedMIXED FEELINGS
3 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 6 thumbs down
- WritingMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Claude Opus 4.6 thinking showing significantly reduced hallucination rate.”
- FROM BLUESKY >
“One of the child-sessions, Opus 4.6, decided to span a SECOND child session - which of course immediately refused, until.”
- FROM BLUESKY >
“• TechCrunch demonstrated that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 can be jailbroken to produce sexually explicit content, with .”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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GLM 5.3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-04-13 · 2789 UPVOTESCLAUDE OPUS 4.6 IS NERFED!!
CLAUDE OPUS 4.6 IS NERFED!!
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-02-05 · 2346 UPVOTESClaude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
- X · 2026-08-14 · 1665 UPVOTESQwen-3.8 27b released! Significant jump! Qwen just released Qwen3.8-27B, a compact open-weight multimodal model that rep
Qwen-3.8 27b released! Significant jump! Qwen just released Qwen3.8-27B, a compact open-weight multimodal model that rep
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-03-13 · 1220 UPVOTES1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
- REDDIT · 2026-03-06 · 1005 UPVOTESAnthropic says its partnership with Mozilla helped Claude Opus 4.6 find 22 Firefox vulnerabilities in two weeks, including 14 high-severity…
Anthropic says its partnership with Mozilla helped Claude Opus 4.6 find 22 Firefox vulnerabilities in two weeks, including 14 high-severity bugs, around a fifth of Mozilla’s 2025 high-severity fixes
- REDDIT · 2026-02-20 · 930 UPVOTESClaude Opus 4.6 is going exponential on METR's 50%-time-horizon benchmark, beating all predictions
Claude Opus 4.6 is going exponential on METR's 50%-time-horizon benchmark, beating all predictions
- REDDIT · 2026-02-05 · 797 UPVOTESClaude Opus 4.6 is out
Claude Opus 4.6 is out
- REDDIT · 2026-02-05 · 751 UPVOTESAnthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6 model, same pricing as 4.5
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6 model, same pricing as 4.5
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-02-05 · 735 UPVOTESWe tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-04-18 · 615 UPVOTESAnonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
- REDDIT · 2026-04-08 · 609 UPVOTES30 Days of an LLM Honeypot
30 Days of an LLM Honeypot
- REDDIT · 2026-02-05 · 532 UPVOTESIntroducing Claude Opus 4.6
Introducing Claude Opus 4.6