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Model releases and defaults in Claude Code, including Opus, Sonnet, and Fable, and how to choose or switch the model you run.

Claude Radar brief card: Claude Opus 5.5 is in Claude Code, with a seed-based drawing demo from Anthropic

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Claude Opus 5.5 is in Claude Code, with a seed-based drawing demo from Anthropic

Anthropic’s Claude account said Claude Opus 5.5 was available on 22 September 2026, showing an algorithmic drawing program credited to @kevin_t_ngo. Claude Code’s changelog lists Opus 5.5 as the default Opus model, with a 1M context window and a $4/$20 per Mtok pair plus $0.20/Mtok cache reads.