MODEL PROOF
Claude Opus 4.6
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Gemini 4 Argon · Δ score 31.4 points · 20% lower measured price · $8.00 / 1M tokens (Price under confirmation since Oct 21, 2026)
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,501.8 ± 3.33 · 80,827 votes
- Context window
- 1M
- Maximum output
- 128K
- Input modalities
- text, image, file
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $5.00 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $25.00 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Anthropic: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery, with at least 90% of the reference context and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $5.00/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $25.00/M |
| Cached input | $0.500/M |
| Cache write | $6.25/M |
| Cache write 1h | $10.00/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
| Web search | $0.01/call |
| Batch discount | 50% |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
6 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws Endpoint terms
| $5.00 | $25.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Azureazure/global Endpoint terms
| $5.00 | $25.00 | undeclared | — |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/global Endpoint terms
| $5.00 | $25.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock Endpoint terms
| $5.00 | $25.00 | undeclared | 99.63% |
| Anthropicanthropic Endpoint terms
| $5.00 | $25.00 | undeclared | 99.92% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/europe Endpoint terms
| $5.50 | $27.50 | undeclared | 100.00% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1501.8high |
|---|---|
| LMArena row | claude-opus-4-6-high |
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- Agenticgamedev #8 1212
- Full-stack apps #13 1220
- Native Android apps #13 1203
- ASCII art #16 1254
- Mobile apps #16 1206
- SVG #18 1228
- Websites #19 1291
- Code categories #20 1289
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
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 | 2026-10-21 |
| Quality data | verified |
| 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...
Questions this page answers
What does Claude Opus 4.6 cost?
$5.00/M in, $25.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Claude Opus 4.6 have an independent quality score?
Claude Opus 4.6 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Claude Opus 4.6?
Gemini 4 Argon has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Claude Opus 4.6?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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