vs
0:6
overall capability wins (0 ties across 6 scored). Claude Opus 4.6 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:2
- Coding0:1
- Arena0:1
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6 leads coding (widest gap: +28.6 on SciCode); Claude Opus 4.6 ranks higher on LMArena (+175 Elo); Claude Opus 4.6 offers ~5.0x larger context (1M vs 200K).
- Claude Opus 4.6 leads coding (widest gap: +28.6 on SciCode)
- Claude Opus 4.6 ranks higher on LMArena (+175 Elo)
- Claude Opus 4.6 offers ~5.0x larger context (1M vs 200K)
- Claude Opus 4.6 allows ~31.3x more max output (128K vs 4K)
- Claude Opus 4.6 is ~3.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Claude 3 Opus
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Claude 3 Opus
- $33.75
- Claude Opus 4.6
- $11.25
Claude Opus 4.6 is about 3.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Anthropic
Anthropic
Family
Claude Opus
Claude Opus
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Mar 4, 2024
Feb 19, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Anthropic
Anthropic
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
200K
1M
Max output
4K
128K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$15
$5
Output $/1M
$75
$25
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$30
$10
Speed
tok/s
40
65
TTFT (s)
0.9
0.6
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
69.6
—
GPQA Diamond
48.9
89.6
Humanity's Last Exam
2.8
39.9
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
64.1
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
47.0
AA-LCR v1.1
—
78.0
CritPt
—
12.6
MMMU-Pro
—
75.4
IFBench
—
53.1
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
75.6
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
72.0
LiveCodeBench
27.9
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
45.5
—
SciCode
23.3
51.9
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
53.3
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,537
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,322
1,497
| Metric | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Opus 4.6 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Anthropic | Anthropic | — |
| Family | Claude Opus | Claude Opus | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Mar 4, 2024 | Feb 19, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Anthropic | Anthropic | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 200K | 1M | B +800K |
| Max output | 4K | 128K | B +124K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $15 | $5 | B +$10 |
| Output $/1M | $75 | $25 | B +$50 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $30 | $10 | B +$20 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 40 | 65 | B +25 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.9 | 0.6 | B +0.30 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 69.6 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 48.9 | 89.6 | B +40.7 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 2.8 | 39.9 | B +37.1 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 64.1 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 47.0 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 78.0 | — |
| CritPt | — | 12.6 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 75.4 | — |
| IFBench | — | 53.1 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 75.6 | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 72.0 | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 27.9 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 45.5 | — | — |
| SciCode | 23.3 | 51.9 | B +28.6 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | 53.3 | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,537 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,322 | 1,497 | B +175 Elo |
Claude 3 Opus
- Context
- 200K / 4K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $15 / $75
- Speed
- 40 tok/s · 0.9s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Original Claude 3 flagship — set the 2024 multimodal and long-context bar before the Opus 4 line.
Claude Opus 4.6
- Context
- 1M / 128K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $5 / $25
- Speed
- 65 tok/s · 0.6s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Mid-stack Opus generation between 4.5 and 4.7 - strong coding and long context.
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