Claude Opus 4.6 for Game Dialogue Branching Pricing

Complete Analysis: 3,000 tokens for Claude 4.6 Opus

Complete analysis of pricing, performance, and use cases for Anthropic's Claude 4.6 Opus model .

$0.035000 (rounded ~ 0.04) Total Cost
3,000 Total Tokens
11.00 seconds Processing Time
257 Effective Tokens/Sec

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Claude Opus 4.6
AnthropicMax Context: 1,000,000 tokens
$5 / $25 per 1M tokens (Standard)
State-dependent pricing active. Current tier: Standard
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$0.035000 Total Cost
$0.010000 Input Cost
$0.025000 Output Cost
$0.000000 Unit Cost
$0.000000 Search Cost
$0.000000 Request Fee
$0.000000 Tool Fee
$0.000000 Code Execution
3,000Total Tokens
$0.011667Cost per 1K
85,714Tokens per $
🔄 Cliff Pricing Active: Using Standard pricing (standard) based on token volume.
📊 Advanced Cost Breakdown

Processing Speed

11.86s Processing Time
280 Tokens/Second
380ms Time to First Token
257 Effective Speed

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Model Information

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🔄 Advanced Options

⚡ Optimization
Flat fee per session (e.g., $0.03 for Code Interpreter)
Hourly storage fee for cached data
First 50 hours free, $0.05/hour after
🧠 Reasoning & Thinking
Apply 1.5x multiplier to output tokens (GPT-5.4, Claude 4.6)
Manual thinking tokens (billed at output rate)
🔧 Special Modes
Enable 4x Tunnel Multiplier (applied after markup)
Enable 6.0x Fast Mode multiplier
📚 Research & Citations
Enable $1.00/$4.00 rates + $10.00/1k search
Enable research tier pricing
Fee per source cited
🎤 Realtime Audio & Video
Session length for billing

Claude 4.6 Opus Anthropic 1000000

$0.035000 (rounded ~ 0.04)
Total Cost
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Vision/Images
✓ Available
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Audio Processing
✗ Not Available
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Video Analysis
✗ Not Available
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Tool Usage
✓ Available
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OCR Support
✗ Not Available
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Batch API
✓ Available
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Caching
✓ Available
90% savings

💰 Total Cost Calculation (from Plugin)

Base Cost (No Optimizations) $0.035000 (rounded ~ 0.04) Input: $0.010000
Output: $0.025000 (rounded ~ 0.03)
Optimized Cost $0.035000 (rounded ~ 0.04) Input: $0.010000
Output: $0.025000 (rounded ~ 0.03)
Unit: $0.000000
Fees: $0.000000

Detailed Cost Analysis (from Plugin)

For 2,000 input tokens and 1,000 output tokens:

  • Input Cost: $0.010000
  • Output Cost: $0.025000 (rounded ~ 0.03)
  • Total Cost: $0.035000 (rounded ~ 0.04)
  • Cost per 1K tokens: $0.011667 (rounded ~ 0.01)
  • Tokens per dollar: 85,714 tokens
  • Context Window: 1000000 tokens

Speed & Performance Analysis

With a processing speed of 280 tokens per second and 380ms time to first token:

  • Processing Time: 11.00 seconds
  • Latency: 380 milliseconds to first token
  • Base Throughput: 280 tokens/second
  • Effective Throughput: 257 tokens/second (temperature-adjusted)

Best Use Cases

NPC DialogueNarrative Design

✨ Market Recommendations AI Model Registry

← Back to Claude 4.6 Opus
📋 Active Input Parameters
Input Tokens: 2,000
Output Tokens: 1,000
Rank AI Model & Provider Total Cost vs Claude 4.6 Opus
🏆 Sora 2 Pro
OpenAI
 $0.000000 Best Value ↓ 100% cheaper
🥈 Veo 3.1
Google
 $0.000000 ↓ 100% cheaper
🥉 Veo 3.1 Fast
Google
 $0.000000 ↓ 100% cheaper
#4 Llama 4 Scout
Meta AI
 $0.000460 ↓ 98.7% cheaper
#5 Mistral Small 3
Mistral AI
 $0.000500 ↓ 98.6% cheaper
#6 Devstral Small 2
Mistral AI
 $0.000500 ↓ 98.6% cheaper
#7 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Google
 $0.000600 ↓ 98.3% cheaper
#8 Mistral Vibe
Mistral AI
 $0.000750 ↓ 97.9% cheaper
#9 Ministral 3
Mistral AI
 $0.000750 ↓ 97.9% cheaper
#10 Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
 $0.000900 ↓ 97.4% cheaper
#11 DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek
 $0.000980 ↓ 97.2% cheaper
#12 Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
Meta AI
 $0.001390 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 96% cheaper
#13 Nemotron 3 Super
Mistral AI
 $0.001420 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 95.9% cheaper
#14 DeepSeek V4 (Engram)
DeepSeek
 $0.001640 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 95.3% cheaper
#15 Llama 3.3 70B
Meta AI
 $0.002400 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 93.1% cheaper
#16 Devstral 2
Mistral AI
 $0.002800 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 92% cheaper
#17 DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek
 $0.003290 (rounded ~ 0.00) ↓ 90.6% cheaper
#18 o4-mini Deep Research
OpenAI
 $0.006000 (rounded ~ 0.01) ↓ 82.9% cheaper
#19 o4-mini
OpenAI
 $0.006600 (rounded ~ 0.01) ↓ 81.1% cheaper
#20 Magistral
Mistral AI
 $0.008000 (rounded ~ 0.01) ↓ 77.1% cheaper
#21 Mistral Large 3
Mistral AI
 $0.010000 ↓ 71.4% cheaper
#22 Sonar Deep Research
Perplexity
 $0.012000 (rounded ~ 0.01) ↓ 65.7% cheaper
#23 Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google
 $0.016000 (rounded ~ 0.02) ↓ 54.3% cheaper
#24 GPT-5.3 Codex Spark
OpenAI
 $0.017500 (rounded ~ 0.02) ↓ 50% cheaper
#25 GPT-5.4 Thinking
OpenAI
 $0.020000 ↓ 42.9% cheaper
#26 Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
 $0.021000 ↓ 40% cheaper
#27 Grok 5
xAI
 $0.021000 ↓ 40% cheaper
#28 Grok 4.1
xAI
 $0.021000 ↓ 40% cheaper
#29 Sonar Pro
Perplexity
 $0.031000 (rounded ~ 0.03) ↓ 11.4% cheaper
#30 Grok 4 Deep Reason
xAI
 $0.035000 (rounded ~ 0.04) Same price
#31 o3 Deep Research
OpenAI
 $0.060000 ↑ 71.4% more
#32 o3 Pro
OpenAI
 $0.120000 ↑ 242.9% more
#33 GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI
 $0.210000 ↑ 500% more
#34 GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI
 $0.210000 ↑ 500% more
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Sora 2 Pro
OpenAI

$0.000000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 100%
🥈

Veo 3.1
Google

$0.000000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 100%
🥉

Veo 3.1 Fast
Google

$0.000000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 100%
#4

Llama 4 Scout
Meta AI

$0.000460
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 98.7%
#5

Mistral Small 3
Mistral AI

$0.000500
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 98.6%
#6

Devstral Small 2
Mistral AI

$0.000500
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 98.6%
#7

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Google

$0.000600
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 98.3%
#8

Mistral Vibe
Mistral AI

$0.000750
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 97.9%
#9

Ministral 3
Mistral AI

$0.000750
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 97.9%
#10

Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI

$0.000900
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 97.4%
#11

DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek

$0.000980
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 97.2%
#12

Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
Meta AI

$0.001390 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 96%
#13

Nemotron 3 Super
Mistral AI

$0.001420 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 95.9%
#14

DeepSeek V4 (Engram)
DeepSeek

$0.001640 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 95.3%
#15

Llama 3.3 70B
Meta AI

$0.002400 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 93.1%
#16

Devstral 2
Mistral AI

$0.002800 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 92%
#17

DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek

$0.003290 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 90.6%
#18

o4-mini Deep Research
OpenAI

$0.006000 (rounded ~ 0.01)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 82.9%
#19

o4-mini
OpenAI

$0.006600 (rounded ~ 0.01)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 81.1%
#20

Magistral
Mistral AI

$0.008000 (rounded ~ 0.01)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 77.1%
#21

Mistral Large 3
Mistral AI

$0.010000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 71.4%
#22

Sonar Deep Research
Perplexity

$0.012000 (rounded ~ 0.01)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 65.7%
#23

Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google

$0.016000 (rounded ~ 0.02)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 54.3%
#24

GPT-5.3 Codex Spark
OpenAI

$0.017500 (rounded ~ 0.02)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 50%
#25

GPT-5.4 Thinking
OpenAI

$0.020000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 42.9%
#26

Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic

$0.021000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 40%
#27

Grok 5
xAI

$0.021000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 40%
#28

Grok 4.1
xAI

$0.021000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 40%
#29

Sonar Pro
Perplexity

$0.031000 (rounded ~ 0.03)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↓ 11.4%
#30

Grok 4 Deep Reason
xAI

$0.035000 (rounded ~ 0.04)
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: Same
#31

o3 Deep Research
OpenAI

$0.060000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↑ 71.4%
#32

o3 Pro
OpenAI

$0.120000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↑ 242.9%
#33

GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI

$0.210000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↑ 500%
#34

GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI

$0.210000
vs Claude 4.6 Opus: ↑ 500%
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