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Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropicfamily · Claude

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...

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Updated 6 h ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026

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Overview

Identity

Identity block not returned by the API for this entity.

Openness

Openness not classified yet — no sourced evidence to place this model in the ontology.

Key facts

Release date

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Status

Source:Claude Developer Platform docsT1observed 13 h agohigh

Retirement date

Source:Claude Developer Platform docsT1observed 13 h agohigh

Openrouter id

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Architecture

Tokenizer

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Capabilities

Modalities

Modalities
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Input
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Output
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Capabilities

  • Tool calling

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Structured output

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Reasoning

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Vision

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Audio

    Unavailable

  • Fine-tuning available

    Unavailable

Context window

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Max output

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Tokenizer

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Benchmarks9

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Comparable same task and conditions · Partially comparable same task, conditions differ (effort, temperature, judge) · Not comparable different variant or metric

No benchmark results recorded

Results appear when a tier 1–3 source publishes them; we never copy scores without a source.

Providers & Pricing3

All offers in the price terminal →
Current prices per 1M tokens
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCached inBatch in / outContextObservedSource
Anthropic APIanthropic/claude-opus-4.6:batch$2.5$12.5$0.25—1M4 h agoopenrouter.aiT2
Anthropic API$5$25$0.50——13 h agoplatform.claude.comT1
Anthropic APIanthropic/claude-opus-4.6$5$25$0.50—1M4 h agoopenrouter.aiT2

USD per 1M tokens as published by each provider (USD). Rows are append-only: every change is kept in the history below.

Price history

Step lines per provider; amber markers are recorded changes. Click a marker or a row for the evidence behind that price.

Output price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider

Output price history of Claude Opus 4.6$0$10$20$30Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Anthropic API: first observed → $25 · 11 Sept 2026Anthropic API: $25 → $12.5 · 11 Sept 2026
  • Anthropic API
  • Anthropic API$25 → $12.511 Sept 2026
  • Anthropic APIfirst observed $2511 Sept 2026

Input price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider

Input price history of Claude Opus 4.6$0$2$4$6Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Anthropic API: first observed → $5 · 11 Sept 2026Anthropic API: $5 → $2.5 · 11 Sept 2026
  • Anthropic API
  • Anthropic API$5 → $2.511 Sept 2026
  • Anthropic APIfirst observed $511 Sept 2026

Timeline15

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Change history20

Temporal, append-only claims: a new observation closes the previous claim instead of overwriting it. Rewind the record with the as-of picker.

Viewing AI Atlas as of 12 Aug 2026 — attributes exactly as the atlas knew them on that day; later corrections are not shown.

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Claude Opus 4.6 was not yet in AI Atlas on 12 Aug 2026

First seen 11 Sept 2026. Nothing is inferred backwards: no attribute is shown for dates before the first observation.
20 claims · 20 properties

Familyfamily1

Claim history for Family
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Claude → currentcurrentClaude Developer Platform docsT1highdeterministic

Release daterelease_date1

Claim history for Release date
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
4 Feb 2026 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Statusstatus1

Claim history for Status
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
active → currentcurrentClaude Developer Platform docsT1highdeterministic

Opennessopenness1

Claim history for Openness
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
proprietary → currentcurrentClaude Developer Platform docsT1highdeterministic

Context windowcontext_length1

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ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
1M tokens → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Max outputmax_output_tokens1

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ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
128K tokens → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Modalitiesmodalities1

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ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
image, text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Input modalitiesmodalities_input1

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ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
image, text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Output modalitiesmodalities_output1

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ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Tokenizertokenizer1

Claim history for Tokenizer
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Claude → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Retirement dateretirement_date1

Claim history for Retirement date
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
5 Feb 2027 → currentcurrentClaude Developer Platform docsT1highdeterministic

Retirement tentativeretirement_tentative1

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ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentClaude Developer Platform docsT1highdeterministic

Descriptiondescription1

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ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
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... → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

File inputfile_input1

Claim history for File input
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Openrouter idopenrouter_id1

Claim history for Openrouter id
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Reasoningreasoning1

Claim history for Reasoning
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Structured outputstructured_output1

Claim history for Structured output
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Supported parameterssupported_parameters1

Claim history for Supported parameters
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
include_reasoning, max_completion_tokens, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p, verbosity → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Tool callingtool_calling1

Claim history for Tool calling
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Visionvision1

Claim history for Vision
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →

Provenance

Attributed facts

22

Source tiers

T1T25 / 17

Freshest observation

6 h ago

Conflicts

1 flagged

Source documents 5

Source documents
SourceDocumentTypeTierLast observedSnapshots
Claude Developer Platform docsdocs.claude.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations.md model_docsT1· Official5 h ago1
Claude Developer Platform docsdocs.claude.com/en/docs/about-claude/pricing.md pricingT1· Official5 h ago1
OpenRouter public model & pricing listingopenrouter.ai/api/v1/models catalogueT2· Quality secondary4 h ago6
SWE-bench leaderboardsswebench.com/ leaderboardT2· Quality secondary11 h ago1
Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models leaderboardT2· Quality secondary11 h ago1

Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.

Data quality (65/100) measures how well AI Atlas knows this entity — completeness, primary-source ratio, freshness, conflicts — never how good the model is. Methodology →