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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Side-by-side API pricing and Artificial Analysis performance for Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) and Lyria 3 Clip Preview (Google). Green cells mark the better value in each row.

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:35 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Pricing
Input $/1M$5.00Free
Output $/1M$25.00Free
Blended $/1M (3:1)$10.00Free
RAG example (30K in / 2K out)$0.2$0
Quality & speed
Intelligence Index37.8
Coding Index
Agentic Index
Output speed (tok/s)57
Time to first token1.85s
Specs
Context window1M1.05M
Input modalitiestext, image, filetext, image

FAQ

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Lyria 3 Clip Preview?

Lyria 3 Clip Preview has the lower blended API price at Free per 1M tokens (3:1 input:output mix), versus $10.00 for the other model. Prices are live from OpenRouter and refresh about hourly.

Which is better for RAG workloads?

For a typical RAG request (30K input / 2K output tokens), Lyria 3 Clip Preview costs about $0 per request versus $0.2. Also compare context windows: Claude Opus 4.6 offers 1M and Lyria 3 Clip Preview offers 1.05M.

Which scores higher on Artificial Analysis benchmarks?

Claude Opus 4.6 leads on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (37.8 vs —). Check coding and agentic indices on this page for workload-specific tradeoffs.