Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
Analysis Summary
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 sits in the Frontier tier on our leaderboard, ranked #5 of 523 published models on overall intelligence. At $5.00 input and $25.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers an exceptionally large context window suited to long-document workflows and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Claude Opus 4.6 from Anthropic is a top-tier model with world-class coding performance, strong agentic capability, vision support, and a 1M token context window ā making it one of the most capable all-round models for professional business use. Premium pricing is the main trade-off, but for demanding coding, agent, and long-context workflows it remains highly competitive.
Assessed April 24, 2026
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Performance Profile
Opus 4.6 is Anthropicās strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks. It is built for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts, making it especially effective..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
|
| Provider | anthropic |
| Release Date | February 4, 2026 |
| Context Length | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 128,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $5.00 | $0.005000 |
| Output | $25.00 | $0.025000 |
Live Performance
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