Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)

anthropic · Released Apr 7, 2026
Intelligence #464 / 743
29.4 our score
Speed
Not reported
Input Price #744 / 751
$30.00 per 1M tokens
Output Price #745 / 751
$150.00 per 1M tokens
Context #118 / 751
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast is an Anthropic Opus variant positioned for rapid access to a premium model family. The supplied data confirms a 1M token context, vision and file input, tool use, and function calling, giving it a broad operating envelope for complex documents, multimodal review, and agent workflows. No independent benchmark results are provided for this specific variant.

Those capabilities make it a plausible choice for high-stakes content review, long-document analysis, and tool-driven workflows where response quality matters more than throughput cost. The main adoption constraint is pricing at $30 per million input tokens and $150 per million output tokens. Teams should validate latency and quality directly before committing, and reserve it for premium tasks rather than routine content or bulk automation.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast offers a 1M token context, vision, file handling, and tool use for demanding client workflows. This variant has no independent benchmark data here, and its premium pricing limits use in high-volume production.

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DFO Verdict

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast offers a 1M token context, vision, file handling, and tool use for demanding client workflows. This variant has no independent benchmark data here, and its premium pricing limits use in high-volume production.

#464 of 743 overall Down 23 this week

How Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) compares

Its 1M-token context window is larger than 84% of the models we list. At $30.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 1% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 38% of models #464
Price: cheaper than 1% of models #744
Context: larger than 84% of models #118
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) $30.00 in $150.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol $2.00 in $10.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) 1M

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence0Technical0Value4.8Content7.5
Performance profile

Strongest on content. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $30.00 $0.030000
Output $150.00 $0.150000

What would Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)

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DFO AI AUTOMATION

These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.

We route routine calls to cheap models and save Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.

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About Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)

Fast-mode variant of Opus 4.6 - identical capabilities with higher output speed at premium 6x pricing. Learn more in Anthropic's docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/fast-mode

Frequently asked questions about Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)

How much does Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) cost?

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) costs $30.00 per million input tokens and $150.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)?

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).

What can Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) do?

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)?

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) is developed by Anthropic and was released on April 7, 2026.

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