Anthropic
claude-opus-4-6 API Pricing
Anthropic charges $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output tokens across a 1M context window. Verified 2026-08-17 against the official Anthropic pricing page.
Input / 1M tokens
$5.00
Output / 1M tokens
$25.00
Context window
1M
What it costs to run
| Workload | Tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Single short call | 2K in, 500 out | $0.022 |
| Typical chat turn | 10K in, 1K out | $0.075 |
| Long document pass | 100K in, 2K out | $0.550 |
| 1,000 chat turns | 10M in, 1M out | $75.00 |
Price history
No price move recorded for claude-opus-4-6 since tracking began on 2026-08-17. Every future change lands here with the before and after.
How it compares
Ranked on the blended cost of a typical chat turn (10K in, 1K out), not the input rate alone.
| Anthropic | claude-sonnet-4.5 | $0.045 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-sonnet-4-6 | $0.045 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-5.5 | $0.060 per turn |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-sol | $0.060 per turn |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-2024-05-13 | $0.065 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-4-6 | $0.075 per turn |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.5 | $0.080 per turn |
| OpenAI | chat-latest | $0.080 per turn |
| OpenAI | gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 | $0.130 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-mythos-5 | $0.150 per turn |
| Anthropic | claude-fable-5 | $0.150 per turn |
TechFastForward coverage of claude-opus-4-6
What we wrote when this model, or the rest of its line, was news.
- Microsoft MAI Launches 7 Models to Cut OpenAI Reliance2026-06-06
- Microsoft MAI-Thinking-1 Beats Claude Sonnet in 20262026-06-06
- Qwen3.7 Max Surpasses Gemini Flash on AI Index 20262026-06-05
- Microsoft Frontier Tuning Builds Private Enterprise AI2026-06-04
- Microsoft MAI-Thinking-1 Ends OpenAI Data Dependence2026-06-03
- Microsoft MAI Beats Claude Sonnet at 10x Lower Cost2026-06-03
Free JSON API
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