Multi-Agent Coding Squads Cost: Claude Opus 4.6

Complete Analysis: 70,000 tokens for Claude Opus 4.6

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

📊 Batch API
$0.375000 (rounded ~ 0.38) Total Cost
70,000 Total Tokens
4 minutes, 27.00 seconds Processing Time
262 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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Number of requests (max 1M). Summary view auto-enabled >10k.

Calculate Token Costs

$0.375000 Total Cost
$0.125000 Input Cost
$0.250000 Output Cost
$0.000000 Unit Cost
$0.000000 Search Cost
$0.000000 Request Fee
$0.000000 Tool Fee
$0.000000 Code Execution
70,000Total Tokens
$0.005357Cost per 1K
186,667Tokens per $
🔄 Cliff Pricing Active: Using Standard pricing (standard) based on token volume.
📊 Advanced Cost Breakdown

Processing Speed

4m 27s Processing Time
280 Tokens/Second
380ms Time to First Token
262 Effective Speed

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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 Opus 4.6 Anthropic 1000000

$0.375000 (rounded ~ 0.38)
Total Cost
📊 Batch API 🔧 Tools
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Vision/Images
✓ Available
🎧
Audio Processing
✗ Not Available
🎥
Video Analysis
✗ Not Available
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Tool Usage
✓ Available
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OCR Support
✗ Not Available
📊
Batch API
✓ Available
⚡
Caching
✓ Available
90% savings

💰 Total Cost Calculation (from Plugin)

Base Cost (No Optimizations) $0.375000 (rounded ~ 0.38) Input: $0.125000 (rounded ~ 0.13)
Output: $0.250000
Optimized Cost $0.375000 (rounded ~ 0.38) Input: $0.125000 (rounded ~ 0.13)
Output: $0.250000
Unit: $0.000000
Fees: $0.000000

Advanced Cost Breakdown (from Plugin)

📊 Batch API
50.0% off
Asynchronous processing discount
📊 Cliff Pricing
Standard
standard pricing (threshold: 200,000)

Detailed Cost Analysis (from Plugin)

For 50,000 input tokens and 20,000 output tokens:

  • Input Cost: $0.125000 (rounded ~ 0.13)
  • Output Cost: $0.250000
  • Total Cost: $0.375000 (rounded ~ 0.38)
  • Cost per 1K tokens: $0.005357 (rounded ~ 0.01)
  • Tokens per dollar: 186,667 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: 4 minutes, 27.00 seconds
  • Latency: 380 milliseconds to first token
  • Base Throughput: 280 tokens/second
  • Effective Throughput: 262 tokens/second (temperature-adjusted)

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✨ Market Recommendations AI Model Registry

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📋 Active Input Parameters
Input Tokens: 50,000
Output Tokens: 20,000
Batch API: Enabled (50% discount)
Tools: Enabled
Rank AI Model & Provider Total Cost vs Claude Opus 4.6
🏆 Mistral Small 3
Mistral AI
 $0.002750 (rounded ~ 0.00) Best Value ↓ 99.3% cheaper
🥈 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Google
 $0.006500 (rounded ~ 0.01) ↓ 98.3% cheaper
🥉 Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
Meta AI
 $0.030500 ↓ 91.9% cheaper
#4 o4-mini Deep Research
OpenAI
 $0.032500 (rounded ~ 0.03) ↓ 91.3% cheaper
#5 o4-mini
OpenAI
 $0.035750 (rounded ~ 0.04) ↓ 90.5% cheaper
#6 Mistral Large 3
Mistral AI
 $0.055000 (rounded ~ 0.06) ↓ 85.3% cheaper
#7 GPT-5.3 Codex Spark
OpenAI
 $0.091875 (rounded ~ 0.09) ↓ 75.5% cheaper
#8 Grok 5
xAI
 $0.112500 (rounded ~ 0.11) ↓ 70% cheaper
#9 Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google
 $0.170000 ↓ 54.7% cheaper
#10 GPT-5.4 Thinking
OpenAI
 $0.212500 (rounded ~ 0.21) ↓ 43.3% cheaper
#11 Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
 $0.225000 (rounded ~ 0.23) ↓ 40% cheaper
#12 o3 Deep Research
OpenAI
 $0.325000 (rounded ~ 0.33) ↓ 13.3% cheaper
#13 o3 Pro
OpenAI
 $0.650000 ↑ 73.3% more
#14 GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI
 $1.102500 (rounded ~ 1.10) ↑ 194% more
#15 GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI
 $1.102500 (rounded ~ 1.10) ↑ 194% more
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Mistral Small 3
Mistral AI

$0.002750 (rounded ~ 0.00)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 99.3%
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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Google

$0.006500 (rounded ~ 0.01)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 98.3%
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Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
Meta AI

$0.030500
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 91.9%
#4

o4-mini Deep Research
OpenAI

$0.032500 (rounded ~ 0.03)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 91.3%
#5

o4-mini
OpenAI

$0.035750 (rounded ~ 0.04)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 90.5%
#6

Mistral Large 3
Mistral AI

$0.055000 (rounded ~ 0.06)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 85.3%
#7

GPT-5.3 Codex Spark
OpenAI

$0.091875 (rounded ~ 0.09)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 75.5%
#8

Grok 5
xAI

$0.112500 (rounded ~ 0.11)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 70%
#9

Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google

$0.170000
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 54.7%
#10

GPT-5.4 Thinking
OpenAI

$0.212500 (rounded ~ 0.21)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 43.3%
#11

Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic

$0.225000 (rounded ~ 0.23)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 40%
#12

o3 Deep Research
OpenAI

$0.325000 (rounded ~ 0.33)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↓ 13.3%
#13

o3 Pro
OpenAI

$0.650000
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↑ 73.3%
#14

GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI

$1.102500 (rounded ~ 1.10)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↑ 194%
#15

GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI

$1.102500 (rounded ~ 1.10)
vs Claude Opus 4.6: ↑ 194%
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Our calculations are based on official pricing from each provider (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Mistral) and are updated regularly. We account for all factors including multimodal inputs, caching discounts, batch API pricing, tool usage multipliers, OCR processing, audio minutes, silence fees, and research mode pricing. Note: Reseller markups and dedicated instance multipliers have been removed to reflect official provider pricing.
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