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Claude Opus 5.5 — Coding, Research & Writing on reAPI

Put Claude Opus 5.5 to work on code that needs a careful review, research that spans many documents, and explanations your team can act on. Try it on reAPI.

Highlights
1M context · adaptive thinking · medium default effort
Best for
Code reviews, research briefs, technical writing
Input
Text and images
Output
Text, with optional streaming
Claude Opus 5.5

Ask Claude Opus 5.5

Start with the prompt in the composer or choose an example.

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Pricing

Credit-based — 1 credit = $0.001 USD. Pay only for completed generations.

First test cost
$0.019219.2 credits

One 1K-token prompt with a 1K-token answer at the cheapest tier.

Testing budget guide
Add credits
$10
≈ 520 tests
$50
≈ 2604 tests
$100
≈ 5208 tests
Input
$3.2
Price · 1M tokens
Output
$16.0
Price · 1M tokens

What can you do with Claude Opus 5.5?

Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic’s model for coding and knowledge work, introduced as the first release in its 5.5 family. Bring the source material behind a difficult task and ask for a useful result: a focused code review, a decision brief, or a clear explanation. With room for up to one million tokens of context, Claude Opus 5.5 lets you keep related files and documents together instead of repeatedly rebuilding the background.

What you can build with this model

Real-world workflows and production use cases you can build and ship with this model.

Claude Opus 5.5 product poster for planning, reviewing, and refactoring code

Claude Opus 5.5 for coding: move from review to a fix

Review a change with the surrounding code and tests in view. Give Claude Opus 5.5 the relevant modules and constraints, then ask for a focused fix or migration plan. Use the suggested checks to verify the patch before it reaches your users.

Try Claude Opus 5.5 for coding
Claude Opus 5.5 product poster illustrating a large document context

Claude Opus 5.5 for research: turn sources into decisions

Bring proposals, review comments, and supporting documents into one conversation. Claude Opus 5.5 can compare options and draft a decision brief that points back to your sources. Ask for evidence beside each recommendation so your team can review the reasoning without searching through every document.

Claude Opus 5.5 product poster for research, comparison, and clear explanations

Claude Opus 5.5 for writing: make complex work clear

Turn a dense incident report into an explanation your reader can use. Tell Claude Opus 5.5 who the audience is and what they need to decide. Ask for the conclusion first, then refine the draft against your team’s tone and the facts you supplied.

Why reAPI for Claude Opus 5.5

Try Claude Opus 5.5 before you integrate

Start with a task in the playground above and review the answer yourself. When you are ready to build, call Claude Opus 5.5 through the familiar Chat Completions format, using the same prompts you have already evaluated.

See Claude Opus 5.5 pricing in one place

Compare input and output rates in the pricing table before you start. Claude Opus 5.5 is billed by token usage, so you can choose a response budget and see how a short question differs from a long research task.

Use Claude Opus 5.5 with your reAPI balance

Keep your model usage under one reAPI account. Your API key and credit balance also work with the platform’s image, video, and audio models, making it easier to add Claude Opus 5.5 to an application that already uses reAPI.

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Opus 5: what changes?

Considering Claude Opus 5.5 for an existing workflow? Compare the documented differences below, then try the same task on both models to see what changes for your application.

Difference
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5
Default native effort
Medium
High
Disable thinking
Not supported
Accepted at high effort or below
Forced tool selection
Not supported
Supported, including with adaptive thinking on
Context and normal output
1M context; 128K output
1M context; 128K output
Native-platform pricing
Lower input, output, and cache-read rates
Higher rates on these dimensions

Based on Anthropic's model and migration documentation, checked September 23, 2026. Native-platform pricing is distinct from reAPI pricing, shown above.

How to start using Claude Opus 5.5

  1. step 01

    Create your reAPI key

    Sign in to reAPI, open API keys, and create a key for your application. Add credits to your account and store the credential on your server.

    Open
  2. step 02

    Choose Claude Opus 5.5

    Set your client’s base URL to https://reapi.ai/api/v1 and select claude-opus-5-5. The API docs include examples you can adapt to your project.

    Open
  3. step 03

    Start with one useful task

    Ask Claude Opus 5.5 to review a module, compare two proposals, or explain an incident. Check the answer against your source material, then refine the prompt for repeat use.

    Open
docs/api/claude-opus-5-5

API reference

Drop-in code and the full parameter table.

curl --no-buffer https://reapi.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"claude-opus-5-5","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Explain this design clearly."}],"reasoning_effort":"medium","max_tokens":4096,"stream":true}'

Invalid request

Check the model ID, message format, supported effort levels, and output limit. The API documentation lists the accepted fields.

Authentication or balance

Use an active reAPI key and a positive credit balance. Completed responses are billed from reported usage.

Refusal or incomplete answer

Inspect finish_reason and returned content, even after HTTP 200. Thinking uses output tokens; leave room for the visible answer.

Timeout or rate limit

Enable streaming for longer tasks and retry rate limits with backoff. Keep the request ID when contacting support.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this model.

Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic’s first released model in its 5.5 family, built for coding and knowledge work. Use claude-opus-5-5 in API requests. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 were announced for later and are not alternative IDs for this page.

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Ready to ship?

Try it in the playground or grab an API key to integrate now.