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Claude Opus 4.6

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The flagship of the Claude 4 generation. 1M-token context is GA, and Opus 4.6 leads on agentic coding, long-horizon reasoning and tool-use reliability.

Claude Opus 4.6 is a frontier AI model from Anthropic. It costs $5.000 per million input tokens and $25.000 per million output tokens (blended $11.000/M), with a 1,000,000-token context window.

INPUT
$5.000/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$25.000/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$11.000/M
unchanged since 3 May
CONTEXT
1,000,000
tokens
What it is good at
  • Agentic coding (Claude Code)
  • 1M-token context, GA
  • Tool use & function calling
  • Multi-step reasoning
  • Faithful to long instructions
Typical use cases
  • Engineering copilots
  • Codebase-wide refactors
  • Long-document Q&A
  • Multi-step agent workflows

Benchmarks

vs. best public score
MMLU88%
Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.
Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".
MATH92%
High-school competition math problems.
Python function synthesis from docstrings.
Real GitHub issues solved end-to-end.
LMArena Elo1378 Elo
Crowd-sourced head-to-head preference Elo rating.
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources, treat as directional rather than authoritative.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Claude Opus 4.6 cost?

Claude Opus 4.6 costs $5.000 per million input tokens and $25.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $11.000 per million tokens.

What is Claude Opus 4.6's context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 supports up to 1,000,000 tokens of context in a single request.

What is Claude Opus 4.6 best for?

Claude Opus 4.6 is well suited to Agentic coding (Claude Code), 1M-token context, GA and Tool use & function calling.

Who makes Claude Opus 4.6?

Claude Opus 4.6 is developed and served by Anthropic. It was released in Nov 2025.

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