Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6

anthropic/claude-opus-4.6

Released Feb 4, 20261,000,000 context

Starting at $5/M input tokensStarting at $25/M output tokens$10/K web search

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 for large codebases, complex refactors, and multi-step debugging that unfolds over time. The model shows deeper contextual understanding, stronger problem decomposition, and greater reliability on hard engineering tasks than prior generations.

Beyond coding, Opus 4.6 excels at sustained knowledge work. It produces near-production-ready documents, plans, and analyses in a single pass, and maintains coherence across very long outputs and extended sessions. This makes it a strong default for tasks that require persistence, judgment, and follow-through, such as technical design, migration planning, and end-to-end project execution.

For users upgrading from earlier Opus versions, see our official migration guide here

Providers for Claude Opus 4.6

OpenRouter routes requests to the best providers that are able to handle your prompt size and parameters, with fallbacks to maximize uptime.

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Prompt

84.8B

Completion

943M

Reasoning

46.5M

Prompt tokens measure input size. Reasoning tokens show internal thinking before a response. Completion tokens reflect total output length.

Uptime stats for Claude Opus 4.6

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Sample code and API for Claude Opus 4.6

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

OpenRouter supports reasoning-enabled models that can show their step-by-step thinking process. Use the reasoning parameter in your request to enable reasoning, and access the reasoning_details array in the response to see the model's internal reasoning before the final answer. When continuing a conversation, preserve the complete reasoning_details when passing messages back to the model so it can continue reasoning from where it left off. Learn more about reasoning tokens.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.

See the Request docs for all possible fields, and Parameters for explanations of specific sampling parameters.

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