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# Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6: $5.00/M in, $25.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic · released 2026-02-04 · proprietary

 $10.00 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $5.00 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $25.00 /M |
| Cached input | $0.500 /M |
| Cache write | $6.25 /M |
| Cache write 1h | $10.00 /M |
| Web search | $0.01 /call |
| Batch discount | 50% |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1502.7 high |
| --- | --- |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

#### Best rankings by task

 - mobileapps #6 of 56 1261
- svg #8 of 98 1268
- website #10 of 151 1312
- codecategories #11 of 145 1314
- dataviz #11 of 142 1303
- 3d #11 of 136 1320
- asciiart #11 of 83 1280
- fullstack #11 of 59 1251

### Capability

| Context window | 1M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 128K |
| Input modes | text, image, file |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | no |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |

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...