Claude Opus 5.5 vs North Micro Vision Instruct: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Claude Opus 5.5 is developed by Anthropic, while North Micro Vision Instruct comes from Cohere. North Micro Vision Instruct was released in August 2026, and Claude Opus 5.5 followed a month later in September 2026. North Micro Vision Instruct has a published size of about 2 billion parameters; Anthropic has not disclosed the parameter count of Claude Opus 5.5.
We have 31 benchmark results for Claude Opus 5.5 and 19 benchmark results for North Micro Vision Instruct, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Claude Opus 5.5 is available through an API at $4 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for North Micro Vision Instruct, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Claude Opus 5.5 | North Micro Vision Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Anthropic | Cohere |
| Release Date | September 22, 2026 | August 12, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 2B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | — |
| Context (output) | 128K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $4.00 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $20.00 | — |
| Average Score | 71.1% | 61.1% |
Verdict
Claude Opus 5.5 leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Claude Opus 5.5 — 0.7, North Micro Vision Instruct — 0.6.
Claude Opus 5.5 is newer: released 9/22/2026 vs 8/12/2026.
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