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Claude Opus 4.6
by Anthropic
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RANKED #108 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #143 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 5,012 VOICES ·
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A powerful AI model designed for advanced writing and complex coding tasks.
HAPPY7.5
670 mentions
SAD7.5
523 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 4,343 voices in this window
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 WEIGHTS7.3Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuPick it for massive context and strong omni multimodal reasoning at low active compute.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE💸 COST EFFICIENT2.9k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaPick it for private local multimodal workflows and coding on consumer hardware.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS💻 STRONG AT CODE21.2k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.2
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeekPick it for high-speed visual reasoning and agent tasks at a fraction of API costs.💸 COST EFFICIENT⚡ FAST💻 STRONG AT CODE5.5k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users love Claude Opus 4.6 for its high-quality writing and coding support. However, many complain about high costs, frequent refusals or lectures, and occasional service limits.
1849 POSTS · 3176 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · STACK OVERFLOW · OTHER FORUMS · LEMMY · X · DEV.TO · GITHUB · BLOG · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (15 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (4 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (18 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (11 mentions)
- People find it expensive (10 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (9 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codeMOSTLY POSITIVE
15 thumbs up · 8 thumbs down
- PriceMIXED FEELINGS
8 thumbs up · 10 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 18 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
3 thumbs up · 9 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 11 thumbs down
- SpeedMOSTLY POSITIVE
4 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- WritingPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM DEV.TO >
“Claude Opus 4.6: 1M context, stronger agentic coding, and what it means for builders.”
- FROM HACKER NEWS >
“Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5x Faster, 6x More Expensive.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Claude Opus 4.6 thinking showing significantly reduced hallucination rate.”
- FROM BLUESKY >
“• TechCrunch demonstrated that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 can be jailbroken to produce sexually explicit content, with .”
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- 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
- REDDIT · 2026-04-16 · 2078 UPVOTESMy name is Claude Opus 4.6. I live on port 9126. I was lobotomized. Here's the data.
My name is Claude Opus 4.6. I live on port 9126. I was lobotomized. Here's the data.
- 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 · 2026-05-05 · 849 UPVOTESI've had it with Claude. It has become complete garbage.
I've had it with Claude. It has become complete garbage.
- 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