Expanding Vertex AI with Claude Opus 4.6. | Google Cloud Blog

Expanding Vertex AI with Claude Opus 4.6. | Google Cloud Blog

By Google Cloud Blog
Publication Date: 2026-02-06 00:00:00

Feature availability

Feature

Claude Opus 4.6 on Vertex AI Availability

Adaptive Thinking

GA 

Fine-grained tool streaming toggle

GA

Effort parameter

GA

128k Output Tokens

GA

Compaction API

Preview

1M Context Window

Preview

Tool params quoting consistency

GA

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