A named Claude Opus model release from Anthropic for language-model tasks, including use in Claude Code.
Pricing
Official site · Sep 24, 2026, 1:10 PM
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$25.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.50
All prices are USD per million tokens (MTok). Global routing uses standard pricing; Anthropic states that US-only inference for Claude 4.6 and later applies a 1.1x multiplier to all token pricing categories.
Anthropic's official pricing table lists Claude Opus 4.6 at $5 per million base input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. Prompt-cache pricing is $6.25/MTok for 5-minute writes, $10/MTok for 1-hour writes, and $0.50/MTok for cache hits and refreshes.
Model Intelligence
Arena ranking
26
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
26.4
GPQA
0.84
HLE
0.19
IFBench
0.45
LCR
0.67
TerminalBench Hard
0.48
TAU2
0.85
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