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Claude Opus 4.6

by Anthropic

Current flagship expensive tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$5.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$25.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$15.00

avg of input & output $/1M

Cached input

$0.500

10% of input — prompt caching

Source: official Anthropic pricing · read Jun 25, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-01

Overview

Anthropic's Opus 4.6 — a frontier model with class-leading coding (~80.8% SWE-bench Verified) and standout legal/enterprise reasoning (top BigLaw Bench score). 1M context, prompt caching up to 90% off. $5/$25 per 1M tokens.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/5
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 4/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning ✓ Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score76.7%
Perf per $/Mtok5.1
GPQA Diamond
91.3%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
65.4%
LiveCodeBench
76%
MCP Atlas
76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam
40%
ARC-AGI 2
68.8%
AIME 2025
99.8%
MMMLU
91.1%
HumanEval
80.8%
Independent composite scores
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1497.2 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #20 of 68 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #22 of 133 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 10 independent measurements
  • Ranks #116 of 133 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at MMMLU — 91.1%, #1 of 33

67 tokens/sec output 1.6s latency to first token (TTFT)

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · updated Aug 1, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Anthropic
Context window
1M tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Feb 5, 2026
Status
Current
Last updated
Jun 25, 2026
Tags
reasoningmultimodalflagship

Availability verified: Jul 25, 2026 — listed on Anthropic's own page