Verified 2026-02-11 · sourced from Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6 Token Calculator & Cost Guide
Estimate Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 API usage in dollars before you send a single request. Standard pricing is $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens with a 200K token context window.
Context window
200,000 tokens
Input price
$5.00 / 1M
Output price
$25.00 / 1M
Cached input
$0.500 / 1M
Usage scenarios
Compare standard and cached pricing (where available) across common workloads.
| Scenario | Tokens in | Tokens out | Total tokens | Standard cost | Cached cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Quick chat reply Single user question with a short assistant answer | 650 | 220 | 870 | $0.0088 | $0.0058 |
Coding assistant session Multi-turn pair programming exchange (≈6 turns) | 2,600 | 1,400 | 4,000 | $0.0480 | $0.0363 |
Knowledge base response Retrieval-augmented answer referencing multiple passages | 12,000 | 3,000 | 15,000 | $0.135 | $0.0810 |
Near-max context run Large document processing approaching the 200K token limit | 176,000 | 24,000 | 200,000 | $1.48 | $0.688 |
Daily & monthly budgeting
Translate usage into predictable operating expenses across popular deployment sizes.
| Profile | Requests/day | Tokens/day | Daily cost | Monthly cost | Cached daily | Cached monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team pilot | 25 | 75,000 | $0.875 | $26.25 | $0.650 | $19.50 |
| Product launch | 100 | 500,000 | $5.50 | $165.00 | $3.92 | $117.75 |
| Enterprise scale | 500 | 3,000,000 | $35.00 | $1050.00 | $26.00 | $780.00 |
Pricing notes
- 🆕 Latest Opus model (released Feb 10, 2026).
- Standard pricing: input $5/MTok, output $25/MTok.
- Prompt caching read price: $0.50/MTok (up to 90% input cost reduction).
- Supports up to 1M context in beta on select plans.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Claude Opus 4.6 cost per 1,000 tokens?
At the published rates of $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens, a typical 1,000 token request (≈70% input, 30% output) costs about $0.0110.
Does Claude Opus 4.6 offer cached input discounts?
Claude Opus 4.6 drops input costs to $0.500 per million cached tokens. Using cached contexts, that same 1,000 token call totals $0.0078, a significant saving for chatbots and RAG systems.
What is the context window for Claude Opus 4.6?
Claude Opus 4.6 supports up to 200,000 tokens (200K), allowing large prompts and retrieval-augmented payloads in a single call.
How fresh is the Claude Opus 4.6 pricing data?
Pricing is sourced from https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/about-claude/pricing and was last verified on 2026-02-11. The calculator updates automatically when models.json is refreshed.