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Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) Pricing

Anthropic · anthropic-claude-opus-4-6-batch

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Input / 1M tokens
$2.50
Output / 1M tokens
$12.50
Context window
1M tokens
≈ 1,333 pages of text
Max output
128k tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.008
1,000 requests / month$8.00/mo10,000 requests / month$80.00/mo100,000 requests / month$800.00/mo
Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

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What it excels at

Performs well on complex multi-step reasoning, long-context document analysis, and vision-language tasks.

The business tradeoff

High output-token pricing; batch designation indicates asynchronous processing with added latency.

Cheaper from Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic$0.0064/ typical requestClaude Haiku 4.5Anthropic$0.0032/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

Qwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ typical requestGrok 4.3xAI$0.0025/ typical requestDeepSeek R1DeepSeek$0.0015/ typical request

Head-to-head

Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) vs Qwen3.7 Plus →Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) vs Grok 4.3 →Claude Opus 4.6 (batch) vs DeepSeek R1 →

Vendor list rates, as of Jul 22, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.