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Claude Opus 4.6

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Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks.

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Our verdict

Not reviewed yet

We have not reviewed Claude Opus 4.6 yet

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From the listing

About Claude Opus 4.6

Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks.

Best for

Highest-stakes reasoning, architecture, and agent planning

Use cases

  • architecture reviews
  • eval judges
  • complex debugging
  • strategy memos

Enterprise DNA angle

Omni routes Opus only onto gated steps so spend tracks judgment, not volume.

Notes

Claude Opus 4.6 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

Pros

  • Latest Opus-class depth for hard plans and reviews
  • Strong coding on complex multi-file work
  • Large context for architecture-scale tasks

Cons

  • Premium $/Mtoken — reserve for high-stakes steps
  • Closed model

Key facts

What we have checked

Input price
$5.00 per million tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Output price
$25.00 per million tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on amazon-bedrock
$0.500 per million cached input tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on amazon-bedrock
$5.00 per million input tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on amazon-bedrock
$25.00 per million output tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on anthropic
$0.500 per million cached input tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on anthropic
$5.00 per million input tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on anthropic
$25.00 per million output tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on azure
$0.500 per million cached input tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Gpqa diamond
90.5% (for 5 Feb 2026)
Checked Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Swe bench verified
78.7% (for 5 Feb 2026)
Checked Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Frontiermath tiers 1 3 v2 private
66% (for 5 Feb 2026)
Checked Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Each value shows when we last confirmed it and where it came from. Values we have not confirmed are left out, never guessed.

API access

How to call it

Call via OpenRouter with model id `anthropic/claude-opus-4.6`.

  • openrouter · anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 · Docs

OpenRouter id: anthropic/claude-opus-4.6

Price

What Claude Opus 4.6 costs, over time

Input price

$5.00 to $5.00

US dollars per million input tokens. 3 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 2026, 44 days.

Source: OpenRouter models API. Checked .

Output price

$25.00 to $25.00

US dollars per million output tokens. 3 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 2026, 44 days.

Source: OpenRouter models API. Checked .

Prices by host

HostPriceOver timeChecked
amazon-bedrockCached input$0.500 per million cached input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
amazon-bedrockInput$5.00 per million input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
amazon-bedrockOutput$25.00 per million output tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
anthropicCached input$0.500 per million cached input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
anthropicInput$5.00 per million input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
anthropicOutput$25.00 per million output tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
azureCached input$0.500 per million cached input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
azureInput$5.00 per million input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
azureOutput$25.00 per million output tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
claude-on-awsCached input$0.500 per million cached input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
claude-on-awsInput$5.00 per million input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
claude-on-awsOutput$25.00 per million output tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
google-vertexCached input$0.500 per million cached input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
google-vertexInput$5.00 per million input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
google-vertexOutput$25.00 per million output tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API

Usage

How much Claude Opus 4.6 is used

Tokens served a day

10.3B to 15.4B

tokens a day on OpenRouter. 19 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 2026, 53 readings.

Source: OpenRouter model activity (748 of 748 series). Checked .

Scores

How Claude Opus 4.6 scores

Each score comes from the named source and shows when we last confirmed it. A flag means the score needs care.

ScoreValueSourceChecked
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index31.9indexAs of 26 Oct 2026Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter
LMArena text rating (Elo)1,502EloAs of 10 Nov 2026LMArena (CC-BY-4.0), published 2026-11-09
LMArena web development rating (Elo)1,547EloAs of 10 Nov 2026LMArena (CC-BY-4.0), published 2026-11-09
LMArena vision rating (Elo)1,316EloAs of 10 Nov 2026LMArena (CC-BY-4.0), published 2026-11-09
Design Arena rating (Elo)1,288EloAs of 10 Nov 2026Design Arena via OpenRouter
Apex agents (best-across-versions)46.3percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Arc agi (best-across-versions)94percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Arc agi 2 (best-across-versions)69.2percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Chess puzzles (best-across-versions)21percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Cl bench (best-across-versions)20.7percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Cl bench life (best-across-versions)17percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Cybench (best-across-versions)93percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Show 22 more scores
ScoreValueSourceChecked
Deepresearch bench (best-across-versions)55.3percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Dtbench (best-across-versions)91.2percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Ebr bench (best-across-versions)12.7percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Frontiercode (best-across-versions)26.6percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Frontiermath 2025 02 28 private (best-across-versions)40.7percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Frontiermath tier 4 2025 07 01 private (best-across-versions)22.9percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Frontiermath tier 4 v2 private (best-across-versions)26.8percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Frontiermath tiers 1 3 v2 private (best-across-versions)66percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Furniture assembly (best-across-versions)28.3percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Gpqa diamond (best-across-versions)90.5percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Gso bench (best-across-versions)41.2percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Lmca (best-across-versions)55.8percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Metr time horizons (best-across-versions)78.9percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Mystery game puzzles (best-across-versions)25percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Otis mock aime 2024 2025 (best-across-versions)Saturated94.4percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Proofbench (best-across-versions)50percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Remote labor index (best-across-versions)4.2percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Simplebench (best-across-versions)67.6percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Simpleqa verified (best-across-versions)47percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Swe bench verified (best-across-versions)78.7percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Terminal bench (best-across-versions)79.8percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Weirdml (best-across-versions)78percentAs of 5 Feb 2026Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Saturated
Top models score close to the maximum, so this test no longer separates them.

Sources

Where this comes from

A source shows what was published when we checked it. It does not certify security, performance or a working installation. Read our method.

Changelog

What changed

No changes recorded yet. Releases, price changes and deprecations appear here, with their dates, once we track them for this record.

USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Claude Opus 4.6 is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
87.4B ▼13.1%
Requests, last 7 days
2.6M
Tool calls, last 7 days
615K
People's vote
1502
Average cost per request
$8.06
Price per million tokens
$5 in · $25 out
012.5B25B19 Sept: 10.3B tokens, 331K requests20 Sept: 11.9B tokens, 306K requests21 Sept: 15.9B tokens, 464K requests22 Sept: 17.5B tokens, 496K requests23 Sept: 19.4B tokens, 528K requests24 Sept: 22.8B tokens, 576K requests25 Sept: 18.3B tokens, 519K requests26 Sept: 12.6B tokens, 353K requests27 Sept: 11.3B tokens, 349K requests28 Sept: 14.5B tokens, 442K requests29 Sept: 13.7B tokens, 402K requests30 Sept: 15.8B tokens, 444K requests1 Oct: 13.6B tokens, 395K requests2 Oct: 12B tokens, 360K requests3 Oct: 10.8B tokens, 336K requests4 Oct: 11.5B tokens, 350K requests5 Oct: 14.3B tokens, 411K requests6 Oct: 15.3B tokens, 449K requests7 Oct: 14.1B tokens, 352K requests8 Oct: 16.3B tokens, 354K requests9 Oct: 16.9B tokens, 378K requests10 Oct: 15.7B tokens, 332K requests11 Oct: 12.8B tokens, 283K requests12 Oct: 15.4B tokens, 366K requests13 Oct: 15.2B tokens, 370K requests14 Oct: 12.6B tokens, 317K requests15 Oct: 15.2B tokens, 389K requests16 Oct: 15.3B tokens, 639K requests17 Oct: 9.8B tokens, 266K requests18 Oct: 10.5B tokens, 237K requests19 Oct: 13.1B tokens, 563K requests20 Oct: 13.1B tokens, 539K requests21 Oct: 12.4B tokens, 303K requests22 Oct: 13.4B tokens, 362K requests23 Oct: 11.6B tokens, 306K requests24 Oct: 9.6B tokens, 334K requests25 Oct: 10.8B tokens, 232K requests26 Oct: 14.6B tokens, 432K requests27 Oct: 16.4B tokens, 571K requests28 Oct: 16.6B tokens, 594K requests29 Oct: 18.2B tokens, 589K requests30 Oct: 13.1B tokens, 441K requests31 Oct: 14B tokens, 495K requests1 Nov: 13.6B tokens, 413K requests2 Nov: 13.5B tokens, 351K requests3 Nov: 11.7B tokens, 320K requests4 Nov: 11.1B tokens, 302K requests5 Nov: 15.6B tokens, 426K requests6 Nov: 11.2B tokens, 305K requests7 Nov: 9.2B tokens, 318K requests8 Nov: 12.6B tokens, 406K requests9 Nov: 12.4B tokens, 363K requests10 Nov: 15.4B tokens, 450K requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct31 Oct10 NovSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

MODEL FIELD GUIDE / SOURCE EVIDENCE

What you can do with Claude Opus 4.6.

Listed specifications; no EDNA task evaluation has been run. Sources checked 2026-11-07. Hosting routes and app features can differ.

DeveloperAnthropic
Exact model identifieranthropic/claude-opus-4.6
Inputtext, image, file
Outputtext
Tool calling
Listed support
Structured output
Listed support
Reasoning controls
Listed support
Availability
available
Price basis
token
Licence verification
Check the developer licence; the model name is insufficient
Context length
1M tokens
Knowledge cutoff
Not established
Developer release date
Not established
First seen in the catalogue
4 Feb 2026
Listed retirement date
Not established
Inspect the sources and their scope
catalogue source ↗

anthropic/claude-opus-4.6: listed route capabilities, availability and prices; provider endpoints can differ.

Checked 2026-11-07
openrouter.ai ↗

Source for reasoning controls, first seen, tool calling, context length, input, output, structured output.

Checked 2026-11-07
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Working out the cost...

Token prices only. Per-request, image, tool, storage and subscription fees are not included. One token is about three quarters of an English word. Real counts vary by model and language. How tokens are counted ↗

Check the source

Price date: 10 Nov 2026, from OpenRouter models API. Prices are USD API token rates. Your app subscription, uploads, browsing and tools are separate.

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Understand the evidence

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Design Arena: 1288 (2026-11-09) ↗
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