Using Claude Opus 4.6 on AWS Bedrock

Implementation guide · Claude 4.6 · Anthropic

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AWS Bedrock exposes Claude Opus 4.6 through model ID claude-opus-4-6. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at AWS Bedrock and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the AWS Bedrock SDK or REST API to call claude-opus-4-6 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $15.00/1M input, $75.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install boto3
API key
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
Model ID
claude-opus-4-6

Use Amazon Bedrock model IDs, e.g. "anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0" for on-demand, or cross-region inference profile IDs like "us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-7-20251101-v1:0". These differ from the public model slug.

import boto3

# Reads AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION from env
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
response = client.converse(
    modelId="claude-opus-4-6",
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": [{"text": "Hello"}]
    }]
)
print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])

Pricing on AWS Bedrock

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$15.00
Output tokens$75.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode Execution

About Claude Opus 4.6

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.

Model Specs

Released2026-02-05
Context1m
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-12

Provider

AWS Bedrock

Amazon Web Services

Seattle, Washington, United States