This model was retired on 2027-02-02. The pricing below is the last-known rate, kept for migration reference.

Claude Opus 4.6Deprecated

AnthropicReleasedFeb 5, 2026KnowledgeMay 2025
VisionTool useReasoningPrompt cachingStructured output
Context
1M
Max output
128K
Serving providers
7
Cheapest input
$5.00 /1M
Prices are on-demand list rates. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: ARC Prize and Artificial Analysis
Speed & latency
Output speed
38 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
2.18s
latency
Headline indices
Intelligence Index
44.9
of 100
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
APEX Agents33%reasoning: adaptive
ARC-AGI-269%high$3.47
CritPt13%reasoning: adaptive
GPQA Diamond90%reasoning: adaptive
Humanity's Last Exam40%reasoning: adaptive
IFBench53%reasoning: adaptive
Long-Context Reasoning74%reasoning: adaptive
MMMU-Pro75%reasoning: adaptive
Omniscience13.7reasoning: adaptive
Omniscience Accuracy0.5reasoning: adaptive
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.4reasoning: adaptive
SciCode52%reasoning: adaptive
TerminalBench Hard48%default
τ²-bench92%reasoning: adaptive

Pricing by serving provider

last-known · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand
Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
Anthropic$5.00$25.001
Azure$5.00$25.001
Amazon Bedrock$5.00$25.001
Vercel AI Gateway$5.00$25.001
Vertex AI$5.00$25.001
OpenRouter$5.00$25.001
Databricks$5.00$25.001

Price history

input + output $/1M since we started tracking
Input Output
$0.000$10.00$20.00$30.00Feb 5Feb 17Jul 3Aug 26$25.00$5.00

Cost calculator

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Model IDs

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claude-opus-4-6azure_ai/claude-opus-4-6anthropic.claude-opus-4-6-v1vercel_ai_gateway/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6vertex_ai/claude-opus-4-6anthropic/claude-opus-4.6databricks/databricks-claude-opus-4-6

Frequently asked questions

Claude Opus 4.6 pricing, context and availability

Is Claude Opus 4.6 still available?

Claude Opus 4.6 was retired on 2027-02-02. The pricing on this page is the last-known rate, kept for migration reference.

How much did Claude Opus 4.6 cost?

Claude Opus 4.6's last-known pricing, before it was retired on 2027-02-02, was $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output tokens.

What was the context window of Claude Opus 4.6?

Claude Opus 4.6 had a 1M token context window and could return up to 128K output tokens.

What could Claude Opus 4.6 do?

Claude Opus 4.6 supported image input (vision), tool use, reasoning, prompt caching and structured output.

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