claude-opus-4.6 API pricing

Checked 12 Sept 2026 LLMs
$ per 1M input $5.00
$ per 1M output $25.00

Blended at 3:1 input to output: $10.00 per million tokens.

OpenRouter charges $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens.

$5.00
$/1M input
$25.00
$/1M output
$0.500
$/1M cached in
1,000,000
Context window
$750.00
1k req/day, monthly

Against the models nearest in price

Blended at a 3:1 input to output ratio.

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claude-opus-4.6 against comparable models — checked 12 Sept 2026
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claude-opus-4.6 This model OpenRouter $5.00 $25.00 1,000,000 $10.00

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Questions

How much does claude-opus-4.6 cost per million tokens?

$5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.500. At a 3:1 input to output mix that blends to $10.00. Checked 12 Sept 2026.

What would claude-opus-4.6 cost for a real workload?

A thousand requests a day at 2,000 input and 600 output tokens each comes to $750.00 a month.

What is the context window for claude-opus-4.6?

1,000,000 tokens of input, with up to 128,000 tokens of output.

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