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Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6, developed by Anthropic, is an inference model with advanced reasoning abilities. It is a closed-source foundation model equipped with an extremely long context window of 1000K.

Parameters

Undisclosed

Context Window

1000K

License

Proprietary

Release Date

2026-02-05

API Pricing

Input Price (per 1M tokens)

$2.5

Output Price (per 1M tokens)

$

Billing Mode: standard

Strengths

  • Provides advanced reasoning capabilities
  • Massive 1000K context grasp
  • Handles complex tasks effectively

Weaknesses

  • Non-public and opaque model
  • Commercial license restrictions
  • Not open-source

Use Cases

  • Large-scale document analysis
  • Tasks requiring complex logical thinking
  • Long-context processing

Deep Analysis

Arena Elo

1498

#1 overall

SWE-Bench Verified

80.8%

Production frontier

GPQA Diamond

91.3%

Pricing

$5.00/$25.00 per 1M tokens

Context Window

1M tokens

Release Date

February 5, 2026

Strengths

  • #1 on Arena Elo (1498)
  • SWE-Bench 80.8% — highest production score
  • GPQA 91.3% leads reasoning benchmarks
  • 1M context window
  • Strong instruction following

Weaknesses

  • Expensive at $5/$25 per 1M tokens
  • Slower than Haiku/Sonnet for latency-sensitive tasks
  • Text+image input only, no audio/video

Competitor Comparison

ModelArenaSWEGPQAPrice
GPT-5.4~147077.5%92.0%$2.50/$10.00
Gemini 3 Pro~144976.2%$1.25/$5.00
Claude Sonnet 5~143092.4%$3/$15

Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's flagship model and the highest-ranked on Chatbot Arena (Elo 1498). Leads on SWE-Bench Verified (80.8%) and GPQA Diamond (91.3%) with a 1M token context window.

Sources

Analysis generated: 2026-05-24