Claude Opus 4.6
- In Input modalities: TextImage Out Output modalities: Text
- Reasoning· low, medium, high, max
- Tool use
- Structured output
Prices
8 offerings · prices as listed Claude API (opens in a new tab)
claude-opus-4-6| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Cache read | Cache write | Output | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-minute cache | 1-hour cache | ||||
| Standard | $5.00 | $0.50 | $6.25 | $10.00 | $25.00 |
| Batch | $2.50 | — | — | — | $12.50 |
Prices from Claude API pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Knowledge cutoff
- May 2025
- Open weights
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- Family
- claude-opus
- Model ID
Not stated on Anthropic’s pages: reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools, aliases.
Cited scores
From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us- Epoch Capabilities Index 156.3
#34 of 118 listed models · CI 154.6–158.2
- LMArena Text 1,503
#7 of 163 listed models · high effort · CI 1,500–1,506 · 84,428 votes
Also listed: Claude Opus 4.6 1,497
- Epoch AI · Chess Puzzles 21%
#61 of 85 listed models · max effort · ±4.09
- Epoch AI · EBR-bench 12.7%
#21 of 28 listed models · max effort
- Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Oct 7 – Nov 5, 2026
- LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
- EQ-Bench by Samuel J. Paech (eqbench.com; EQ-bench/EQ-bench-site on GitHub), MIT License. · License · as of Oct 24 – 28, 2026
- LiveBench (White et al.), release 2026-06-25, livebench.ai, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. This board, adapted from it, is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. · License · as of Jun 25, 2026
- changes we made
Included in coding plans
- Kiro Pro $20.00 / month1,000 credits per month
- Kiro Pro+ $40.00 / month2,000 credits per month
- Kiro Pro Max $100.00 / month5,000 credits per month
- Kiro Power $200.00 / month10,000 credits per month
Changes
All changes →- 3 new prices on Claude API Cache write (1-hour cache) $10.00 · Input (Batch) $2.50 · Output (Batch) $12.50
Sources
- Claude API pricing (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Claude Opus 4.6 model overview (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 3, 2026
- Amazon Bedrock pricing (opens in a new tab) aws.amazon.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Vertex AI generative AI pricing (opens in a new tab) cloud.google.com · checked Oct 25, 2026
- Structured outputs (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Programmatic tool calling (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- System Card: Claude Opus 4.6 (opens in a new tab) www-cdn.anthropic.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
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