Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s frontier reasoning model optimized for complex software engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It offers strong multimodal capabilities, competitive performance across real-world coding and reasoning benchmarks, and improved robustness to prompt injection. The model is designed to operate efficiently across varied effort levels, enabling developers to trade off speed, depth, and token usage depending on task requirements. It comes with a new parameter to control token efficiency, which can be accessed using the OpenRouter Verbosity parameter with low, medium, or high. Opus 4.5 supports advanced tool use, extended context management, and coordinated multi-agent setups, making it well-suited for autonomous research, debugging, multi-step planning, and spreadsheet/browser manipulation. It delivers substantial gains in structured reasoning, execution reliability, and alignment compared to prior Opus generations, while reducing token overhead and improving performance on long-running tasks.
Claude 4.5 Opus is built for complex multi-agent setups, autonomous research, and multi-step planning tasks. It features improved robustness to prompt injections, enhanced tool-use execution, and a dedicated verbosity parameter that allows developers to optimize token overhead based on task requirements.
To interact with this model via an OpenAI-compatible gateway or OpenRouter endpoint:
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
model |
string |
Yes | Use "claude-opus-4.5" or "anthropic/claude-4.5-opus". |
messages |
array |
Yes | Array of standard conversation objects (role/content). |
max_tokens |
integer |
No | Limits the generation length. Supports extended outputs. |
temperature |
float |
No | Recommended: 0.0 for code/logic; 0.5 for planning. |
extra_body |
object |
No | Pass provider-specific flags like OpenRouter's verbosity. |
claude-opus-4-5 uses the legacy extended thinking format with budget_tokens. Newer models use "type": "adaptive" instead.
budget_tokens must be strictly less than max_tokens (minimum value: 1024).thinking is enabled, temperature must be 1.0 (or omitted).{
"model": "claude-opus-4-5",
"max_tokens": 16000,
"thinking": {
"type": "enabled",
"budget_tokens": 8000
},
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Your question here"
}
]
}
Tip: Increase
budget_tokensfor harder problems. A common starting point is 25–50% ofmax_tokens.
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