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Using Claude Mythos Preview on Anthropic

Implementation guide · Claude Mythos · Anthropic

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Anthropic exposes Claude Mythos Preview through model ID claude-mythos-preview. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

Last refreshed 2026-07-26. Next refresh: weekly.

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Anthropic and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Anthropic SDK or REST API to call claude-mythos-preview — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $25.00/1M input, $125.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install anthropic
API key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
Model ID
claude-mythos-preview

Use the versioned model ID, e.g. "claude-sonnet-4-6" or "claude-opus-4-7-20251101".

import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()  # reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from env
message = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-mythos-preview",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(message.content[0].text)

Pricing on Anthropic

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$25.00
Output tokens$125.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode Execution

About Claude Mythos Preview

Anthropic's cybersecurity-focused frontier model, offered as an invitation-only research preview under Project Glasswing. Succeeded by Claude Mythos 5 (API ID: claude-mythos-5) as of June 9, 2026. Anthropic has indicated that Claude Mythos Preview will be retired after Claude Mythos 5 becomes available; no formal retirement date was published as of 2026-06-09. For current access and the migration path, see the Anthropic migration guide.

Model Specs

Released2026-05-01
Context1m
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-12

Provider

Anthropic
Anthropic

San Francisco, California, United States