Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Claude Haiku 4.5 anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 | Claude Opus 4.6 anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Family | Claude 4 | Claude 4 |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 200,000 tok | 1,000,000 tok |
| Max output | 8,192 tok | 128,000 tok |
| Released | 2026-04-13 | 2026-04-13 |
| Input price | $1.00 /1M | $5.00 /1M |
| Output price | $5.00 /1M | $25.00 /1M |
| Cache read | $0.100 /1M | $0.500 /1M |
| Tools | yes | yes |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | yes | yes |
| JSON mode | yes | yes |
| Reasoning | — | yes |
| Prompt caching | yes | yes |
Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers similar levels of coding performance at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed of larger models.
Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's flagship language model built for complex, multi-step work in coding, financial analysis, and legal reasoning. It uses extended thinking to work through complex problems carefully and features a one million token context window.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Claude Haiku 4.5
client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Claude Opus 4.6 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.6",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)