Claude Opus 4.6
Newer version available: Claude Opus 5.5
Released
2026-02-05
Last refreshed
2026-10-17
Status
Researched 15d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionClassificationJSON / Tool useHighlight
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Specifications
- Family
- Claude 4.6
- Released
- 2026-02-05
- Context
- 1M
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-12
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Created by
Pricing
Output / 1M
$25.00
Input / 1M
$5.00
Cheapest of 6 routes · Anthropic · cache read $0.500
Providers(6)
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About
Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's Claude 4.6 model with multimodal text and image input and an optional reasoning mode. It offers a 1M-token context window and scores 80.8 on SWE-bench Verified.
Providers(6)
Compare all 6Compare API pricing across 6 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Batch in / out | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | $2.50 / $12.50 | read $0.500 / 5m $6.25 / 1h $10.00 | Serverless |
| GCP Vertex AI | $5.00 | $25.00 | - | - | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | $5.00 | $25.00 | - | read $0.500 / 5m $6.25 / 1h $10.00 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $5.00 | $25.00 | - | read $0.500 / 5m $6.25 | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $5.00 | $25.00 | - | read $0.500 | Serverless |
| AWS Bedrock | $5.50 | $27.50 | - | read $0.550 / 5m $6.88 / 1h $11.00 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(16)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
Free OSSAnthropicGCP Vertex AIMicrosoft Foundry
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.
Passthrough + feeAnthropicGCP Vertex AI
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.
SubscriptionAnthropicGCP Vertex AIMicrosoft Foundry
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.
SubscriptionAnthropicGCP Vertex AI
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing
RouterAWS Bedrock's native prompt router that predicts each model's performance per request and routes between two models of the same family (Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama or Amazon Nova).
Passthrough + feeAWS Bedrock
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Passthrough + feeMicrosoft Foundry
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode Execution
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(22)
Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80.8 | 2026-02Observed 2026-04-09 | — | ||
| 91.3 | diamondObserved 2026-04-28 | — | ||
| 53.4 | —Observed 2026-05-19 | — | ||
| 89.1 | —Observed 2026-04-19 | — | ||
| 84.8 | τ-benchObserved 2026-05-13 | — | ||
| 1501.0 | ThinkingObserved 2026-04-28 | — | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 | |
| 77.3 | official Anthropic system card, adaptive thinking, max effort, with image cropping tool, avg 5 runsObserved 2026-02-01 | — | ||
| 65.3 | pass@1 (best of 5 runs)Observed 2026-05-28 | — | ||
| 72.0 | Listed as 'Claude Opus 4 (32k thinking)' = 72 (percent_correct)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 94.2 | AIME 2025 (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 68.8 | ARC-AGI-2 (accuracy%)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 84.0 | BrowseComp (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 53.0 | HLE with tools enabled (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 95.0 | HumanEval (pass@1)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 70.2 | LiveCodeBench score (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 74.8 | MathVista accuracy (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 62.7 | MCP-Atlas (accuracy%)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 91.1 | MMLU (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 76.5 | MMMU (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 65.4 | Terminal-Bench 2.0 (accuracy%)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 1299.0 | vision_style_control overall 2026-10-19 (style control, default view)Observed 2026-10-26 | Configuration: Claude Opus 4.6 (High) Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: LMArena vision style control leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-19 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @9761a3ce, latest split). Board entry 'Claude Opus 4.6 (High)': rank 3, Arena Score 1299.1 (95% CI 1292.6-1305.5), 22286 votes. Retrieved 2026-10-26. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 | |
| 1484.0 | text creative_writing 2026-10-22Observed 2026-10-22 | Configuration: Claude Opus 4.6 Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: LMArena Text arena, Creative Writing category (no style control), board published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, text config, latest split). Board entry 'Claude Opus 4.6' (category creative_writing in text/latest-00000-of-00001.parquet): rank 12 of 416, rating 1483.7 (95% CI 1477.8-1489.7), 15623 votes. Other board entries for this model, not used: 'Claude Opus 4.6 (High)' 1504.8 (rank 4). Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 |
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Output / 1M
$25.00
Input / 1M
$5.00
Cheapest of 6 routes · Anthropic · cache read $0.500
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