Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Opus 5
Prices checked
Claude Opus 4.6 takes 1 of 5 rounds against Claude Opus 5. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $8.59 per million tokens against $10.
AnthropicWins 1 roundClaude Opus 4.6
1M context · tool calling · reads images
$8.59/M tokensCheapest price, at Poe · $3.86 per 1,000 pages
AnthropicClaude Opus 5
1M context · tool calling · reads images
$10/M tokensAnthropic's own price · $4.50 per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$5/M
$5/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$25/M
$25/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
$8.59/M at Poe
none below the maker
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$10/M
$10/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$3.86
$4.50
Context
1M tokens
1M tokens
Open weights
no
no
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
yes
yes
Reads images
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
yes
Released
4 Feb 2026
24 Jul 2026
Providers selling it
44
51
Price we measure against
the maker's own
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
not published
no provider to check
Providers selling both · 38
Jiekou$9.50 / $10
Abacus$10 / $10
AIHubMix$10 / $10
Amazon Bedrock$10 / $10- Anthropic$10 / $10
Atlas Cloud$10 / $10
Azure AI Foundry$10 / $10
Azure Cognitive Services$10 / $10
Claude Opus 4.6, then Claude Opus 5, per million tokens; the 8 cheapest of 38.
Go further
Add a third or fourth model, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
AI/ML API · 23% cheaper ·
$5 / $25 $6.50 / $32.50
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Claude Opus 5?
- Claude Opus 4.6, at $8.59 per million tokens against $10 for Claude Opus 5, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 31 Oct 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Claude Opus 4.6: $8.59 at Poe. Claude Opus 5: nobody sells it below the maker's own price with a stated reason, so $10 is the number to beat.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 38 providers sell both: Jiekou, Abacus, AIHubMix, Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Atlas Cloud, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Jiekou.
- Which holds more context?
- Both hold 1M tokens in one call.
Prices exclude tax, read 31 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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