Claude Opus 4.6
by Anthropic · anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 · #299 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 2:38 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks. It is built for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts, making it especially effective...
Compare vs:GPT-5.6 SolGPT-5.6 TerraGPT-4.1GPT-4.1 Mini
Pricing
Input
$5.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$25.00
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$10.00
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.50
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
$6.25
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Claude Opus 4.6 with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $10.00 | $0.535 | — |
| 50% | $8.31 | $0.31 | −42% |
| 90% | $6.96 | $0.13 | −76% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates for this provider’s batch API. Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.01 | $10.00 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.065 | $65.00 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.2 | $200.00 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.875 | $875.00 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
37.8
AA composite quality
Coding Index
—
Math Index
—
Agentic Index
—
Output speed
57 tok/s
median
Time to first token
1.85s
median
Time to first answer
1.85s
after reasoning tokens
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 84.0% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 18.6% |
| SciCode | 45.7% |
| IFBench | 44.6% |
| AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning) | 58.3% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 48.5% |
| τ²-Bench (Telecom) | 84.8% |
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,323 |
| Web apps | 1,261 |
| Full-stack | 1,279 |
| Mobile apps | 1,280 |
| Android native | 1,195 |
| UI components | 1,336 |
| Data viz | 1,322 |
| SVG | 1,274 |
| 3D | 1,335 |
| Game dev | 1,337 |
| Code categories | 1,327 |
| ASCII art | 1,298 |
Specs
Context window
1M
tokens
Max output
128K
tokens
Input modalities
text, image, file
Tokenizer
Claude