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Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) Pricing

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

Input / 1M tokens

$30.00

Output / 1M tokens

$150.00

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)$0.096

1,000 requests / month$96.00/mo 10,000 requests / month$960.00/mo 100,000 requests / month$9,600.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

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Pricing and specs for this model are auto-synced from OpenRouter, but it isn't one of our editorial picks yet — no “what it excels at” write-up or business tradeoff notes. Any tier badge above is estimated from price.

Cheaper from Anthropic

Claude Fable 5Anthropic$0.032/ typical request Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic$0.0096/ typical request Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic$0.0032/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

GPT Chat LatestOpenAI$0.018/ typical request Grok 4.3xAI$0.0025/ typical request Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsGoogle$0.0072/ typical request

Head-to-head

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Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.