// claude
Claude Opus 4.6
The prior Opus point release. Same price tier as 4.7 and 4.8.
Previous generation
Claude Opus 4.6 still runs on llmrelay at the rates below, and we keep selling it — pinned versions matter when you have output you do not want to re-validate. For new work, Claude Opus 5 is the current pick at $2.5/M input.
Official list
llmrelay
Input / M tokens
$5.00
$2.50
Output / M tokens
$25.00
$12.50
Context window
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1,000,000 tokens
Max output
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128,000 tokens
What it costs you per month
Real-world budget scenarios. Numbers are simple sums — official list price vs llmrelay's 50% off tier.
Usage scenario
Official
llmrelay
Light coding (1M in / 200K out per month)
$10.00
$5.00save $5.00
Heavy Cursor / Cline user (50M in / 5M out per month)
$375.00
$187.50save $187.50
Production RAG (500M in / 20M out per month)
$3000.00
$1500.00save $1500.00
What it's good at
- +Strong multi-file reasoning
- +Long agent runs
- +Tool use
Best for
- — Cursor / Cline
- — Agent frameworks
- — Codebase-scale work
Try Claude Opus 4.6 at half the price
Free to create an account, no subscription, $10 minimum top-up — enough to run this model against a real task and judge quality yourself.
Get API key →Compare Claude Opus 4.6 against the alternatives
The comparisons this model appears in, the models nearest it on price, and the full rate card.
- Claude Opus 5 pricing and specs$2.50/M in, $12.50/M out — half list. Current flagship Opus. A generation past 4.8, same list price.
- GPT-5.6 Sol pricing and specs$2.50/M in, $15.00/M out — half list. The full-size GPT-5.6. Frontier reasoning, priced like a mid-tier.
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