Fast mode is out of research preview for Claude Opus 5.5, and you no longer need to request access
Fast mode is out of research preview for Claude Opus 5.5, and you no longer need to request access. Requests to Claude Opus 5.5 no longer require the fast-mode-2026-02-01 beta header, and requests that still send it keep working. Claude Opus 5.5 now has a default fast mode rate limit in the Start, Build, and Scale usage tiers.
- We've added capabilities.thinking.types.between_tools to the Models API
- Fast mode for Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on Claude in Microsoft Foundry for deployments hosted on Azure
- Fast mode is out of research preview for Claude Opus 5.5, and you no longer need to request accessPreview
- The Compliance API now returns the text each organization member saved as Instructions for Claude inBeta