Claude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)
- Released
- Feb 5, 2026
- Tracked since
- 2026-07-23
Intelligence index26.4Ranks 126 of 664 models with this metric
Coding index—Not tested
Agentic index—Not tested
Capability profile
5 axes vs. site averageClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)
Site average
Some dimensions have no data yet — marked on the chart
Pricing
per 1M tokens- Input
- $5.00
- Output
- $25.00
- Cache read
- $0.500
- Cache write
- $6.25
Performance
- Output throughput
- 39 tokens/sec
- Time to first token
- 2.64s
- First answer token
- 2.64s
- End-to-end response
- 15.40s
History
2Intelligence index
37.8→26.4
Output
Unchanged across 62 days of records
Output throughput
41→39
Cheaper at this level
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