Anthropic · Frontier
Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low
Claude Opus 4.6 with adaptive thinking (effort: low).
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $5.00
- Output
- $25.00
- Cache read
- $0.50
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 128K
- Average output (7 days)
- 1.6K tokens
- Longer than 87% of 465 models
Side by side
Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking LowAnthropicThis model | Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Efficient |
| Added | Feb 5, 2026 | May 19, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1M | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 128KBest | 65.54K |
| Average output | 1.6K tokens | 322 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $5.00 | $1.50Best |
| Output | $25.00 | $9.00Best |
| Cache read | $0.50 | $0.15Best |
| Cache write | — | $0.0833 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 264.0 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 4.8 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 98.1% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 31.9 | 32.6Best |
| Coding Index | — | 70.1 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | No |
| Audio input | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | minimal, low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
Intelligence Index
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low31.9
- Gemini 3.5 Flash32.6
Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low tested at max reasoning effort
Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: Better than 74% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 70.1
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 42.1%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 13.5%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 874 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 1,202 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 19.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: 78.0%Top
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 73.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 10.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: 39.9%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 42.7%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: 89.6%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 92.2%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: 53.1%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 76.3%Top
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 6.6%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 53.9%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: 46.2%Top
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 40.9%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: 92.1%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 95.3%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low: 78.0%Top
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 73.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low was tested at max reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Math | Not in top 20 | #18 · 2.0% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Math | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1497.4 |
| Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1468.5 |
| German | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1491.8 |
| Industry Writing And Literature And Language | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1473.7 |
| Japanese | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1479.0 |
| Polish | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1506.1 |
| Russian | Not in top 20 | #19 · 1491.1 |
| Vision Style Control · Chinese | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1346.4 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing Vision | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1277.1 |
| Vision Style Control · Diagram | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1312.7 |
| Vision Style Control · English | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1278.2 |
| Vision Style Control · Homework | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1316.2 |
| Vision Style Control · Humor | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1292.8 |
| Vision Style Control · Ocr | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1299.1 |
| Document Overall | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1463.3 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not in top 20 | #20 · 72.1% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SVG | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1253 |
| ASCII Art | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1251 |
| Agentic Game Dev | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1145 |
| Full Stack | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1197 |
| Native Apps | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1186 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "anthropic/claude-opus-4.6:thinking:low",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.6:thinking:low",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Anthropic
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