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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.6

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Claude Opus 4.5
anthropic/claude-opus-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
32,000 tok
128,000 tok
Released
2026-05-22
2026-05-22
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input price
$5.00 /1M
$5.00 /1M
Output price
$25.00 /1M
$25.00 /1M
Cache read
$0.500 /1M
Cache write
$6.25 /1M
Tools
yes
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
yes
JSON mode
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
yes
Prompt caching
yes
Batch API
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Claude Opus 4.5
anthropic/claude-opus-4.5
Full spec →

Claude Opus 4.5 brings further reasoning, coding, and agentic improvements over Opus 4.1, with stronger tool use and tighter instruction following.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
Claude Opus 4.6
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
Full spec →

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.

Strengths
  • Prior-gen Opus reasoning
  • Still strong on long-context tasks
Use cases
Long-context agentsPinned production workloads

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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7
anthropic/claude-opus-4.5 · anthropic/claude-opus-4.7
Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Opus 4.5
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 · anthropic/claude-opus-4.5
Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4
anthropic/claude-opus-4.5 · anthropic/claude-sonnet-4
Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.5
anthropic/claude-opus-4.5 · anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Claude Opus 4.5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 · anthropic/claude-opus-4.5
Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Opus 4.7
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 · anthropic/claude-opus-4.7
Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Opus 4.6
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 · anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Claude Opus 4.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Claude Opus 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.6",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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