Anthropic route
claude-opus-4-6
Claude Opus 4.6 API pricing.
One OpenAI-compatible route at the vendor list price with 0% markup, billed per token from one prepaid balance. No subscription required.
Input / 1M tokens
$5.00
Output / 1M tokens
$25.00
Context window
1M
Provider
Anthropic
Workload calculator
Put the token rate into context.
These examples apply the published input and output rates directly. Actual cost follows the exact tokens your client sends and the model returns.
This route is the 33rd cheapest of 39 comparable text models and cheaper than 3 on the same key. Its context window ranks 7th of 39.
Short request
$0.075
10K input + 1K output
Agent turn
$0.75
100K input + 10K output
Exact token billing
No request minimum
One model ID change
OpenAI compatible
Cost neighbourhood
Nearby routes, same workload.
Every comparison uses the same 100K-input / 10K-output turn. Changing route is a one-line model ID edit.
Price does not measure task quality. Check Claude Opus 4.6 benchmark evidence before optimizing on cost alone. For generation routes, see GPT Image 2.
First request
Route it in one call.
Use any OpenAI SDK or tool. Keep the request shape, point the base URL at RouterPlex, and set the model ID shown here.
Read the quickstartcurl https://api.routerplex.com/v1/chat/completions \-H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERPLEX_API_KEY" \-H "Content-Type: application/json" \-d '{"model": "claude-opus-4-6","messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]}'
Route notes
Questions before production traffic.
01How much does the Claude Opus 4.6 API cost?+
Through RouterPlex, Claude Opus 4.6 costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output tokens — the vendor list price with 0% markup, billed per token from a prepaid balance you top up from $5.
02What does one Claude Opus 4.6 agent turn cost?+
A 100K-token input with a 10K-token reply costs about $0.75 on Claude Opus 4.6. That makes it the 33rd cheapest of 39 comparable text models on RouterPlex, roughly 69.4× the cost of the cheapest option (DeepSeek V4 Flash).
03What is a cheaper alternative to Claude Opus 4.6?+
Kimi K3 from Moonshot is the closest cheaper model on RouterPlex — $0.45 per agent turn against $0.75 for Claude Opus 4.6, at $3.00/1M input and $15.00/1M output. Both run on the same key and the same endpoint, so switching is a one-line model ID change.
04Is Claude Opus 4.6 cheaper than GPT-5.5?+
Yes. Per agent turn, Claude Opus 4.6 costs about $0.75 against $0.80 for GPT-5.5 — 6% less.
05What is the context window of Claude Opus 4.6?+
Claude Opus 4.6 supports a 1M token context window on RouterPlex, the 7th largest of the 39 models that publish one.
06Can I use Claude Opus 4.6 with the OpenAI SDK?+
Yes. RouterPlex serves Claude Opus 4.6 through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint at https://api.routerplex.com/v1 — point any OpenAI SDK or tool at that base URL with your RouterPlex key and set model to "claude-opus-4-6".
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