Anthropic · Frontier
Claude 4.6 Opus
Claude Opus 4.6 supports advanced coding, agentic workflows, and long-context analysis with up to a 1M-token context window.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high · xhigh · max
- 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)
- 1.4K tokens
- Longer than 84% of 465 models
Side by side
Claude 4.6 Opus compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Claude 4.6 OpusAnthropicThis model | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VLnvidiaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | nvidia |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Open weights |
| Added | Feb 5, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1MBest | 262.14K |
| Max output | 128KBest | 16.38K |
| Average output | 1.4K tokens | 1.1K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $5.00 | $0.15Best |
| Output | $25.00 | $0.50Best |
| Cache read | $0.50 | $0.02Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 45.8 tok/s | 654.7 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 2.1 s | 1.8 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 98.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 26.4 | 26.5Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | No |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | low, medium, high, xhigh, max | none, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Claude 4.6 Opus
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Intelligence Index
- Claude 4.6 Opus26.4
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL26.5
Claude 4.6 Opus tested at high reasoning effort
Claude 4.6 Opus: Better than 66% of 326 scored models
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Claude 4.6 Opus: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 14.8%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Claude 4.6 Opus: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 2.0%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Claude 4.6 Opus: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 999 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Claude 4.6 Opus: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 1,162 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Claude 4.6 Opus: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 8.0%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Claude 4.6 Opus: 67.0%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 69.0%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Claude 4.6 Opus: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 13.3%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Claude 4.6 Opus: 19.1%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 30.7%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Claude 4.6 Opus: 84.0%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Claude 4.6 Opus: 44.6%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Claude 4.6 Opus: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 0.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Claude 4.6 Opus: —
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 47.8%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Claude 4.6 Opus: 48.5%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Claude 4.6 Opus: 84.8%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Claude 4.6 Opus: 67.0%
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 69.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Claude 4.6 Opus was tested at high reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- Claude 4.6 Opus
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
|---|---|---|
| Combined | #12 · 14.6% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Combined leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Claude 4.6 Opus
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
|---|---|---|
| Creative writing | #14 · 25.5% | Not in top 20 |
| Coding | #11 · 24.4% | Not in top 20 |
| Math | #6 · 28.9% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Claude 4.6 Opus
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | #6 · 1502.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Coding | #5 · 1547.2 | Not in top 20 |
| Math | #6 · 1516.6 | Not in top 20 |
| Longer Query | #4 · 1521.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Creative Writing | #4 · 1499.5 | Not in top 20 |
| Instruction Following | #3 · 1510.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Hard Prompts | #3 · 1530.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Chinese | #5 · 1550.6 | Not in top 20 |
| English | #4 · 1512.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Exclude Ties | #6 · 1521.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Expert | #2 · 1544.2 | Not in top 20 |
| French | #11 · 1509.2 | Not in top 20 |
| German | #4 · 1507.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Hard Prompts English | #3 · 1534.4 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | #6 · 1499.5 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | #4 · 1491.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Legal And Government | #6 · 1509.4 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | #2 · 1527.2 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Mathematical | #5 · 1524.4 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Medicine And Healthcare | #5 · 1516.4 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Software And It Services | #5 · 1537.2 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Writing And Literature And Language | #5 · 1499.5 | Not in top 20 |
| Japanese | #9 · 1498.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Korean | #12 · 1462.7 | Not in top 20 |
| Multi Turn | #4 · 1516.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Non English | #7 · 1488.5 | Not in top 20 |
| Polish | #7 · 1501.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Russian | #8 · 1505.2 | Not in top 20 |
| Spanish | #4 · 1498.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control Overall | #2 · 1299.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Chinese | #6 · 1352.2 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing Vision | #3 · 1308.7 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Diagram | #4 · 1330.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · English | #3 · 1301.2 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Entity Recognition | #8 · 1236.6 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Homework | #12 · 1324.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Humor | #4 · 1297.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Ocr | #4 · 1313.6 | Not in top 20 |
| Document Overall | #3 · 1507.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Document Style Control Overall | #2 · 1495.3 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Claude 4.6 Opus
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | #2 · 78.7% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- Claude 4.6 Opus
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | #20 · 94.0% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- Claude 4.6 Opus
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | #16 · 1213 | Not in top 20 |
| EQ-Bench 3 | #4 · 1712 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- Claude 4.6 Opus
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
| Leaderboard | Claude 4.6 Opus | Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
|---|---|---|
| Data Visualization | #20 · 1279 | Not in top 20 |
| Agentic Game Dev | #9 · 1163 | Not in top 20 |
| Web Apps | #18 · 1207 | Not in top 20 |
| Full Stack | #13 · 1221 | Not in top 20 |
| Native Apps | #11 · 1196 | Not in top 20 |
| Mobile Apps | #15 · 1208 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 45.8 tok/s
- Faster than 33% of 250 models
- Time to first token
- 2.1 s
- Quicker than 72% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 4.4%
- About $4.80 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
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",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"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",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Anthropic
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