Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
Analysis Summary
Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's earlier Opus generation, offering strong general reasoning and a high agentic score alongside vision, tool use, and function calling across a 1 million token context window. While newer Opus releases have since raised the bar further, this version remains a capable option for complex, multi-step work.
Its strengths lie in long-document analysis, autonomous agent workflows, and client-facing content where reliability and depth matter more than raw speed. The main trade-off is cost: output pricing is high, so it is best reserved for high-value tasks.
Businesses already invested in the Claude ecosystem will find this a dependable workhorse for coding, analysis, and content generation, though newer Opus versions should be considered for the most demanding new deployments.
Assessed July 25, 2026
Editorial notes
Claude Opus 4.6 from Anthropic delivers strong agentic reliability, vision support, and a 1M token context, ideal for complex client-facing workflows.
Rankings consider pricing, capabilities, benchmarks, and real-world applicability and are refreshed as new models launch. Feedback?
DFO Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6 from Anthropic delivers strong agentic reliability, vision support, and a 1M token context, ideal for complex client-facing workflows.
How Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 compares
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 ranks #47 of 395 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #27 of 302 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 88% of the models we list. At $5.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 7% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on content. The pulled-in intelligence corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
Compare shapes side-by-side →Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $5.00 | $0.005000 |
| Output | $25.00 | $0.025000 |
What would Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 cost your business?
Pick the job that looks most like yours, then fine-tune with the sliders. Estimates update live.
A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
Full calculator with 650 models → Price Calculator
These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.
We route routine calls to cheap models and save Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.
Talk to our teamAbout Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s 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..
Embed this ranking
Frequently asked questions about Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
How much does Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 cost?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).
What can Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 do?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 is developed by Anthropic and was released on February 4, 2026.
