anthropic / text-generation API-only released 2026-02-04

Claude Opus 4.6

Name: Claude Opus 4.6
Price: 5 USD
Author: anthropic

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...

Input / 1M

$5.00

Output / 1M

$25.00

Context

AA Intelligence

31.9

Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text + image + file → text View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24

$5.00

input / 1M

$25.00

output / 1M

$0.50

cached input / 1M

$30.00

1M in + 1M out

:batch variant $2.50 in · $12.50 out

Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
Max output: 128,000 tokens
Providers: 5
Cheapest provider: Amazon Bedrock · $5.00 / $25.00
Best throughput: —
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic: 31.9 / — / —

✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✓ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)

Current: $5.00 input · $25.00 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index: 31.9
AA Coding Index: —
AA Agentic Index: —

Design Arena

CategoryEloWin %Rank

agenticgamedev 1213 47.8% #8

androidnative 1198 63% #13

blender3d 1088 40.4% #16

fullstack 1220 59.9% #13

mobileapps 1207 58.5% #17

webapps 1206 56.3% #22

3d 1274 62.5% #23

asciiart 1255 61.9% #15

codecategories 1288 61.2% #20

dataviz 1279 58.7% #21

gamedev 1278 61% #24

svg 1228 60.9% #19

uicomponent 1280 59.8% #25

website 1291 61.2% #19

Providers

5 providers · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics

Provider	Quant	Context	Input	Output	Uptime	Tok/s
Amazon Bedrock	unknown	1M	$5.00	$25.00	—	—
Anthropic	unknown	1M	$5.00	$25.00	100%	—
Azure	unknown	1M	$5.00	$25.00	—	—
Claude Platform on AWS	unknown	1M	$5.00	$25.00	100%	—
Google	unknown	1M	$5.00	$25.00	—	—
Google	unknown	1M	$5.50	$27.50	—	—

Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation: anthropic
Released on OpenRouter: 2026-02-04
Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
Max output: 128,000 tokens
Input: text, image, file
Output: text
Tokenizer: Claude
Moderated by provider: Yes
OpenRouter id: anthropic/claude-opus-4.6

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