Using Claude Opus 4.6 on OpenRouter

Implementation guide · Claude 4.6 · Anthropic

Serverless

OpenRouter exposes Claude Opus 4.6 through model ID anthropic/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 OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $5.00/1M input, $25.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$5.00
Output tokens$25.00
Image input$1.00

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.

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Model Specs

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

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Provider

OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA