Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.6

anthropic/claude-opus-4.6

Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks. It is built for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts, making it especially effective...

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Data source

Only tracked on Vercel AI Gateway.

Claude Opus 4.6 usage over time

Vercel AI Gateway share of tokens, by day.

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Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Claude Opus 4.6 holds 2.73% today, up from 2.68% at the start of the visible window.

Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-09-02 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/anthropic-claude-opus-4-6

Rank history

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-09-02 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/anthropic-claude-opus-4-6

Adoption curve vs the pantheon

Claude Opus 4.6's share plotted against days since first tracked, overlaid on other current leaders on the same axis. The question every new-model page asks: is this one going to make it?

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-09-02 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/anthropic-claude-opus-4-6

Citable stat

As of 2026-09-02, Claude Opus 4.6 holds 0.0% of Vercel AI Gateway token share, down 2.13pp over 30 days. Source: Tidelines (Vercel AI Gateway).

Cost per session

Median dollars spent on one Claude Opus 4.6 session, by coding agent and session length.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Token rate sets the price; session length and reasoning set the bill.

Agent1 turn2–9 turns10–49 turns50+ turns
Claude Code$0.024$0.415$1.57$9.36
Hermes Agent$0.111$0.166$1.01$6.19

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Data: OpenRouter session-cost dataset as of 2026-08-30 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/anthropic-claude-opus-4-6

Where to run it

Claude Opus 4.6 pricing by provider

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Per-provider pricing, context, and uptime via OpenRouter. Sorted by output price.

Claude Opus 4.6 is served by 6 tracked endpoints on OpenRouter. The cheapest output price is $25.00 per million tokens from Claude Platform on AWS, and the most expensive is $27.50 from Google · 1000k. The largest context window offered is 1000k tokens. Prices are list rates and refresh daily.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MContextUptime
Claude Platform on AWS$5.00$25.001000k99.92%
Azure$5.00$25.001000k
Google · 1000k$5.00$25.001000k100.00%
Amazon Bedrock$5.00$25.001000k99.86%
Anthropic$5.00$25.001000k100.00%
Google · 1000k$5.50$27.501000k