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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 API Pricing — $5.00 Input / $25.00 Output per 1M Tokens

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic — $5.00 input / $25.00 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 1.0M tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens
$5.00
Output / 1M tokens
$25.00
Provider
Anthropic
Context window
1.0M tokens
Via
OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage Daily Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)$3.38$101.25
Small app (1K/day)$17.50$525.00
Mid-scale (10K/day)$225.00$6750.00
Large scale (100K/day)$5000.00$150000.00
Model ID: anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.
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About Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 is an LLM developed by Anthropic. Input costs $5.00 per million tokens and output costs $25.00 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 1.0M tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

  • Input tokens: $5.00 per 1 million tokens
  • Output tokens: $25.00 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

  • Daily cost: $17.5000
  • Monthly cost: $525.000

Accessing Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is anthropic/claude-opus-4.6.

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