The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs claude-opus-4-20250514 ·Anthropic vs Anthropic

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs claude-opus-4-20250514 — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 profile claude-opus-4-20250514 profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 — Anthropic
Quality
#11 of 61
88based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#219 of 316
36.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#315 of 340
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#186 of 206
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#85 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
claude-opus-4-20250514 — Anthropic
Quality
#31 of 61
62based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 scores 88 and claude-opus-4-20250514 scores 62 — a 26-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6. They share 3 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 ahead on 3 and claude-opus-4-20250514 ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 only, at $10.00 per 1M tokens blended.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 is proprietary; claude-opus-4-20250514 is proprietary. 4 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-opus-4-20250514
Known Good Index 88 based on 5 of 6 evaluations 62 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00
Output tok/s 37
Context window 1.00M
Providers 4 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-opus-4-20250514
Known Good Index 88 62
Coding Index 89
Mathematics Index 93 64
Science Index 95 69
Reasoning Index 84
Agentic Index 89 76
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 · marker = claude-opus-4-20250514 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 69
MATH / AIME93 / 42
SWE-bench Verified79 / 71

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 / claude-opus-4-20250514. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 leads on 3 of 3, claude-opus-4-20250514 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-opus-4-20250514
Text Arena 1,497 1,364
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,498 1,412
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

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

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-opus-4-20250514
Input $/1M $5.00
Output $/1M $25.00
Blended $/1M $10.00
Cache read $/1M $0.500
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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 accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-opus-4-20250514
Context window 1.00M
Max output tokens 128k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-opus-4-20250514
Output tokens/s 37
Time to first token 2.1s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

4 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 tok/s claude-opus-4-20250514 blendedclaude-opus-4-20250514 tok/s
Google · first party $10.00 40
Anthropic · first party $10.00 37
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 33
Azure · first party $10.00 30

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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