Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · Released 5 Feb 2026 · claude-opus-4-6
$5.00
Input price / 1M tokens
#52 of 61, cheapest first
$25.00
Output price / 1M tokens
#52 of 61, cheapest first
1M
Context window
#29 of 71
38
Output tokens / second
#58 of 61
76%
MRCR v2 (8-needle)
#5 of 13
Summary
Claude Opus 4.6 is a proprietary model from Anthropic, released on 5 Feb 2026.
At $5.00 input and $25.00 output per million tokens, it is #52 of 61 on input price, cheapest first.
Its 1M-token context window ranks #29 of 71.
Measured output speed is 38 tokens per second, #58 of 61.
Legacy Opus model; at launch Anthropic said it improved on its predecessor's coding skills and led on agentic coding, multidisciplinary reasoning and agentic search evaluations.
Benchmarks · 1 reported
| Benchmark | Score | Bar | Rank | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MRCR v2 (8-needle)long-context retrieval | 76% | #5 of 13 | Anthropic Opus 4.6 launch postSelf-reported |
Self-reported means the lab ran the test itself. A rank appears only where several labs report the same version of a benchmark.
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Sources
- price, cache prices, batch, long-context pricing, fast mode behaviour: platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing, checked 2 Oct 2026
- context, max output, release, api id, knowledge cutoff, modalities, legacy status: platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/opus-4-6/overview, checked 2 Oct 2026
- status, retirement commitment (not sooner than 2027-02-05): platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-deprecations, checked 2 Oct 2026
- minimum cacheable prompt length: platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching, checked 2 Oct 2026
- benchmark, launch long-context price: anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6, checked 2 Oct 2026
- output speed: artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-4-6, checked 2 Oct 2026
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