Claude Opus 4.6
Provider：Anthropic
Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks. It is built for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts, making it especially effective...
Key specs
- Context：1M
- Max output：128K
- Tokenizer：Claude
- Released：2026-02-04
Token pricing
- Input price：$5.00 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$25.00 / 1M tokens
- Cache read：$0.500 / 1M tokens
- Cache write：$6.25 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$10.00 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image, File
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis：Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.（≈ $0.200/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.150/call）
- Content Moderation：Auto-detect violations, hate speech, NSFW content; custom rule sets and score thresholds.
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Long context (>=1M tokens): well-suited for long-doc QA, code-base analysis, multi-turn agents.
- Long max output (>=30K tokens): strong fit for deep report / essay / document-drafting workflows.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
- File / PDF input support: fit for document parsing, contract review, RAG over private data.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of Claude Opus 4.6? Input price $5.00 / 1M tokens, output price $25.00 / 1M tokens, blended about $10.00 / 1M tokens. Refer to Anthropic’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Claude Opus 4.6 support? Context window is 1M, max output about 128K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Claude Opus 4.6 best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Claude Opus 4.6 fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation, Content Moderation. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does Claude Opus 4.6 support? Supports Text, Image, File modality.
- Is Claude Opus 4.6 a free model? Claude Opus 4.6 is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Claude Opus 4.6? Claude Opus 4.6 is offered by Anthropic.
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