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Claude Opus 4.6

We’re upgrading our smartest model.

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.

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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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