Key takeaways
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Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's most capable Opus model, with lower cost per task than Opus 5.
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Powers agentic coding with clear communication and explainability for longer running sessions.
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Includes safety classifiers and adaptive thinking that decides how much reasoning each task needs.
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Opus 5.5 is the first of Anthropic's new Claude 5.5 model family releases and its most capable Opus model, built for agentic coding, knowledge work, and long-running tasks. I t completes tasks using fewer tokens than Claude Opus 5, with lower cost per task as token efficiency and price reductions compound. Claude Opus 5.5 comes with safety classifiers and zero data retention by default on Amazon Bedrock.
Anthropic also announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a solution that will give customers the option to safely deploy Anthropic's most capable models while keeping their data in cloud infrastructure they control.
Claude Fable 5.1 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Fable 5.1 is built to run demanding work end to end across software, documents, and research. It outperforms Fable 5 on Anthropic's most difficult evaluations. Anthropic has designated it a Covered Model-a category that carries additional data retention, safety review, and access policies.
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How to access Claude Opus 5.5 on AWS
Claude Opus 5.5 shows improvement in the following areas:
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Stronger reasoning-improved performance on the hardest math, science, and multi-step benchmarks.
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Cost efficiency-completes tasks using fewer tokens than Opus 5, with lower price per token and compounding savings on cached workloads.
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Safety classifiers-includes classifiers in biology, cybersecurity, and AI development, similar to Claude Fable 5.1.
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Clearer communication-surfaces what it did, what it found, and what it needs, making long-running tasks easier to follow.
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Adaptive thinking-always-on reasoning that decides how much thinking each task needs, replacing manual thinking budgets.
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Agentic coding and knowledge work-handles longer running sessions with improved explainability, and requires fewer corrections on long documents and reports.
How to access Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS
Dive deeper
Visit Anthropic's Claude in Amazon Bedrock product page for more detailed information on Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1, and Claude Sonnet 4.
September 22, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 5.5.
September 1, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Fable 5.1.
July 24, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 5.
June 30, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Sonnet 5.
June 9, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Fable 5.
May 28, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.8.
February 17, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Sonnet 4.6.
February 5, 2026: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.6.
November 24, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.5.
October 15, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Haiku 4.5.
September 29, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Sonnet 4.5.
August 5, 2025: This article has been updated to reflect the availability of Claude Opus 4.1.