The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Anthropic ·Proprietary ·Tracked since 25 Jul 2026

claude-opus-4-6-thinking — quality, speed & price analysis

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Summary

claude-opus-4-6-thinking does not yet carry a Known Good Index score — the index needs at least one science, one mathematics and one coding result. It accepts text input, outputs text.

We do not currently track published pricing or throughput for claude-opus-4-6-thinking.

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Technical specifications
ReasoningNo
Input modalitytext
Output modalitytext
Context window
Max output
WeightsProprietary
Knowledge cutoff
Tool calling
Providers
Highlights — where claude-opus-4-6-thinking sits
Price

Blended USD per 1M tokens · Lower is better · Published pricing via OpenRouter

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Quality

How claude-opus-4-6-thinking compares against every tracked model

Known Good IndexCoding IndexCapability indicesBy open weights
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, MATH / AIME, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from their publishers; we do not run these evaluations.

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Quality Breakdown

claude-opus-4-6-thinking on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = claude-opus-4-6-thinking · grey marker = average across tracked models

None of the six index evaluations have published a score for this model yet.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Text Arena

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

1503
Elo · 95% CI ±4
#1
of 381 ranked models
63k
votes counted
1505
style-controlled (#2)

Ingested 25 Jul 2026.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputCache discountQuality per dollar
Blended Price

USD per 1M tokens at a 3:1 input:output blend. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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Speed

Median output throughput across hosting providers

Output speedBy provider
Output Speed

Median output tokens per second across all tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better.

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Latency

Time to first token, median across providers

Time to first tokenEnd-to-end response
Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, median across tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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Providers

Hosts serving claude-opus-4-6-thinking, with their own price and speed

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No hosting providers are currently tracked for this model.

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History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 25 Jul 2026

Known Good Index
Blended price — per 1M
Output speed — tok/s
Time to first token

No recorded changes for this model since tracking began.

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Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing claude-opus-4-6-thinking with other tracked models

Head-to-head pages are generated for the top 50 models by Known Good Index, which claude-opus-4-6-thinking is not currently in. Its nearest tracked models by index are below.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Elo — Arena Full attribution →