Scheduled for retirement on Feb 2, 2027. Still available at the prices below until then.
Context
1M
Max output
128K
Serving providers
7
Cheapest input
$5.00 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.
Benchmarks
independent evaluations · source: ARC Prize and Artificial AnalysisSpeed & latency
Output speed
38 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
1.96s
latency
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
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| APEX Agents | 33% | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ARC-AGI-2 | 69% | high | $3.47 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| CritPt | 13% | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| GPQA Diamond | 90% | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Humanity's Last Exam | 40% | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| IFBench | 53% | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Long-Context Reasoning | 78% | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| MMMU-Pro | 75% | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Omniscience | 13.7 | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Omniscience Accuracy | 0.5 | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Omniscience Non Hallucination | 0.4 | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 2026 | 52% | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| TerminalBench Hard | 48% | default | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| τ²-bench | 92% | reasoning: adaptive | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Pricing by serving provider
standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand| Serving provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Endpoints | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| AnthropicCheapest | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Azure | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Amazon Bedrock | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| OpenRouter | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| VercelVercel reseller quote | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vertex AI Anthropic Models | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Databricks | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| OpenRouter (batch) | $2.50 | $12.50 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Price history
listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens Input Output
Cost calculator
estimate your monthly spend on this model$3,000
estimated / month
Model IDs
copy the exact identifier for your platformanthropic/claude-opus-4.6:batchazure_ai/claude-opus-4-6anthropic.claude-opus-4-6-v1anthropic/claude-opus-4.6anthropic/claude-opus-4.6claude-opus-4-6vertex_ai/claude-opus-4-6databricks/databricks-claude-opus-4-6
Frequently asked questions
Claude Opus 4.6 pricing, context and availabilityIs Claude Opus 4.6 still available?
Yes. Claude Opus 4.6 is scheduled for retirement on 2027-02-02.
How much does Claude Opus 4.6 cost?
Claude Opus 4.6 costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens from Anthropic, and $25.00 per 1M output tokens from Anthropic. Across 7 serving providers, input prices range from $5.00 to $5.00 per 1M tokens.
What is the context window of Claude Opus 4.6?
Claude Opus 4.6 accepts up to 1M tokens of context and can return up to 128K output tokens.
Which providers serve Claude Opus 4.6?
Claude Opus 4.6 is available from 7 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Anthropic is currently the cheapest.
What can Claude Opus 4.6 do?
Claude Opus 4.6 supports image input (vision), tool use, reasoning, prompt caching, structured output and web search.
Other Anthropic models
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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 14, 2026
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