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Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic
Previous flagship — strong reasoning and extended thinking support
Input price$5.00 / 1M tokens
Output price$25.00 / 1M tokens
Context window1M tokens
Last updated2026-04-20
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Per request
$0.0175
Daily
$175.00
Monthly
$5,250.00
per month · 30-day estimate
Yearly
$63,875.00
Tips to reduce cost
- →Use prompt caching to reuse repeated system prompts
- →Trim whitespace and reduce verbose instructions
- →Use a smaller model for classification or routing tasks
- →Batch async requests to get 50% discount (OpenAI/Anthropic)
- →Cache identical requests at the application layer
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About Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6 is a premium large language model from anthropic, priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output tokens. It is priced above the market average and best suited for complex reasoning. The 1M context window makes it suitable for very long documents, large codebases, and book-length inputs.
For most production workloads, the cost breakdown is dominated by input tokens (system prompts, context, retrieved documents) rather than output. At this price point, Claude Opus 4.6 is positioned for use cases where quality justifies the premium over cheaper alternatives.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Claude Opus 4.6 cost per 1,000 tokens?
Claude Opus 4.6 costs $0.0050 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.0250 per 1,000 output tokens.
What is Claude Opus 4.6's context window?
Claude Opus 4.6 supports a context window of 1M tokens, which is suitable for very long documents, large codebases, and extended multi-turn conversations.
How does Claude Opus 4.6 compare to GPT-4o on price?
Claude Opus 4.6 is priced above the market average on input tokens. At $5/1M input vs $2.50/1M for GPT-4o, the cost difference becomes significant at scale — 10,000 requests/day with 1,000 input tokens each costs $1500/month with Claude Opus 4.6 vs $750/month with GPT-4o.