Claude Opus 4.6: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.6 is a language model from Anthropic, released in February 2026, with multimodal input, a 1M-token context window, and pricing from $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most intelligent model, improving on its predecessor's coding skills with more careful planning, longer agentic task sustenance, more reliable operation in larger codebases, and better code review and
Claude Opus 4.6 benchmarks
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Claude Opus 4.6 Performance Across Datasets
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llm-stats.com - Thu Aug 06 2026Claude Opus 4.6 pricing
Providers
Claude Opus 4.6 starts at $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens via Anthropic.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Anthropic | $5.00 | — | $25.00 | 1.0M/128.0K | 7.14 | 4 | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.
Claude Opus 4.6 context window
Input and output token limits for Claude Opus 4.6, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
Claude Opus 4.6 API
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Use it in your code
Billed at $5.00 input / $25.00 output per 1M tokens through the LLM Stats gateway.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
base_url="https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="claude-opus-4-6",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.
Claude Opus 4.6 latency
Claude Opus 4.6 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.
Provider operational metrics
Time to first token, output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic
Claude Opus 4.6 examples
Recent arena outputs from Claude Opus 4.6, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Claude Opus 4.6 license
Claude Opus 4.6 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms.
- License
- Proprietary
- Hosted access
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
Claude Opus 4.6 resources
Official sources for Claude Opus 4.6: api documentation, official playground, official launch post.
Claude Opus 4.6 vs other models
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FAQ
Common questions about Claude Opus 4.6.