About
Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks.
Pricing
| Input | $3.50 | per 1M prompt tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $17.50 | per 1M generated tokens, reasoning included |
| Cached input | $0.35 | per 1M tokens read back from the prompt cache |
| Cache write | $4.38 | per 1M tokens written to the prompt cache |
| Web search | $0.014 | per request that uses the provider’s built-in search |
What a request costs
| Typical request | Each | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Short chat reply1,500 in · 400 out | $0.012 | $12.25 |
| Question over a long document40,000 in · 800 out | $0.154 | $154.00 |
| Agent tool step20,000 in · 1,200 out | $0.091 | $91.00 |
At the developer-API rate, before any provider promotion or prompt-cache saving. In the app, the model picker shows what a message costs on your plan before you send it.
Benchmarks
Head-to-head rankings
- #8Game devAgent arenaElo 121350% wins
- #12Android appsAgent arenaElo 121564% wins
- #13Full stackAgent arenaElo 122060% wins
- #15Mobile appsAgent arenaElo 120559% wins
- #15ASCII artModel arenaElo 125762% wins
- #17WebsitesModel arenaElo 129361% wins
- #18Web appsAgent arenaElo 120057% wins
- #18SVGModel arenaElo 122761% wins
- #19CodeModel arenaElo 129061% wins
- #20Data vizModel arenaElo 128159% wins
Scores from Artificial Analysis; bars are scaled to the best model on our list. Rankings from Design Arena head-to-head votes. Published by OpenRouter alongside its catalogue.
Call it from code
OpenAI-compatible: point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.privateer.pro/v1 and set
model. Keys are created in the app under Settings.
cURL
curl https://api.privateer.pro/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PRIVATEER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "anthropic/claude-opus-4.6:batch",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }],
"reasoning": { "effort": "medium" }
}'Python
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
api_key=os.environ["PRIVATEER_API_KEY"],
)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.6:batch",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)JavaScript
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
apiKey: process.env.PRIVATEER_API_KEY,
});
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "anthropic/claude-opus-4.6:batch",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);Parameters this model accepts
include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningreasoning_effortresponse_formatstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_pverbosity