Claude Opus 4.6
Flagshipby Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6 was Anthropic's flagship until April 17, 2026, when Opus 4.7 succeeded it. 4.6 remains available on the API at $5 input and $25 output per million tokens and still leads on many reasoning and code benchmarks. It is the first Claude to carry the full 1 million token context window at standard pricing, with full tool use and vision, so a 900K request bills at the same per-token rate as a 9K one. Two operational notes: it accepts the inference_geo parameter, where US-only routing applies a 1.1x multiplier, and fast mode requests run at standard speed and standard rates rather than erroring.
Input Price
$5.00
per 1M tokens
Output Price
$25.00
per 1M tokens
Context Window
1M
tokens
Released
2026-03
API access
Capabilities
Key Strengths
- ✓Previous-gen flagship, still strong
- ✓Top-tier reasoning
- ✓Best-in-class code generation
- ✓1M token context window at standard pricing
Best For
- ▸Complex analysis and research
- ▸Large codebase refactoring
- ▸Multi-step agent workflows
- ▸Long document processing
Benchmark Scores
| Benchmark | Score | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench | 80.8 | Real-world software engineering tasks from GitHub issues (SWE-bench Verified) |
| MMLU-Pro | 92.4 | General knowledge and reasoning across 57 subjects |
| HumanEval | 95.1 | Python code generation and problem solving |
| GPQA Diamond | 74.2 | Graduate-level science questions verified by domain experts |
| MATH | 91.8 | Competition-level mathematics problems |
| FrontierCode v1.1 | 26.6 | Agentic coding on frontier software engineering tasks (Main split) |
Scores sourced from public benchmark datasets. See full benchmark leaderboard for all models.
Pricing Details
Input tokens
$5.00
per 1M tokens
Output tokens
$25.00
per 1M tokens
Estimated cost per 1K requests
$17.50
~1K input + ~500 output tokens avg
Prices are subject to change. Check the official documentation for current pricing. See the cost calculator for detailed estimates.
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