Models

anthropic-opus-4-6 vs claude-3-7-sonnet

Output tokens cost $25.00 per million on anthropic-opus-4-6 and $16.50 per million on claude-3-7-sonnet. Input tokens cost $5.00 per million on anthropic-opus-4-6 and $3.30 per million on claude-3-7-sonnet. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.50 per million on anthropic-opus-4-6 and $3.30 per million on claude-3-7-sonnet. Context lengths are 200,000 tokens on anthropic-opus-4-6 and 200,000 tokens on claude-3-7-sonnet. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 3.1s on anthropic-opus-4-6 and 0.6s on claude-3-7-sonnet. Measured output throughput is 39.7 tok/s on anthropic-opus-4-6 and 57.3 tok/s on claude-3-7-sonnet. On the LMArena coding leaderboard anthropic-opus-4-6 scores 1548 and claude-3-7-sonnet scores 1430.

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Anthropic logo
anthropic-opus-4-6
Anthropic · text, image → text

Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s latest state-of-the-art reasoning model. It features an adaptive “thinking” mode that dynamically decides when to think and how much to think. At the default effort level (high), Claude will almost always engage in thinking. At lower effort levels, it may skip thinking for simple problems. ⚠️ The minimum cache token for claude-opus-4-6 has been increased from 1,024 to 4,096 tokens.

Input$5.00 /M
Output$25.00 /M
Anthropic logo
claude-3-7-sonnet
Anthropic · text, image → text

Support for the thinking parameter through the original Claude SDK.

Input$3.30 /M
Output$16.50 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

anthropic-opus-4-6
claude-3-7-sonnet
Input /M
$5.00
$3.30
Output /M
$25.00
$16.50
Cache read /M
$0.50
$3.30
Context length
200,000
200,000
Max output
32,000
128,000
Time to First Token
3.1 s
0.6 s
Throughput
39.7 tok/s
57.3 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
anthropic-opus-4-6claude-3-7-sonnet
13401400146015201580
Overall
13711499
Coding
14301548
Math
13621504
Hard prompts
13981528
Instruction following
13841501
Multi-turn
13961510
Creative writing
13761478
Longer query
14101519
Chinese
13811549
English
13851508
Vision
anthropic-opus-4-6claude-3-7-sonnet
1140120012601320
Overall
11751297
OCR
11831313
Diagram
11891333
Homework
12241314

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

claude-3-7-sonnet
$446 /mo
anthropic-opus-4-6
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: anthropic-opus-4-6, claude-3-7-sonnet?

claude-3-7-sonnet: $16.50/M output tokens; anthropic-opus-4-6: $25.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

anthropic-opus-4-6: 1548; claude-3-7-sonnet: 1430 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

claude-3-7-sonnet: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

anthropic-opus-4-6 accepts 200,000 and claude-3-7-sonnet accepts 200,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on anthropic-opus-4-6 and 128,000 tokens on claude-3-7-sonnet.

Which one generates tokens faster?

claude-3-7-sonnet at 57.3 tok/s and anthropic-opus-4-6 at 39.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

anthropic-opus-4-6 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; claude-3-7-sonnet accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call anthropic-opus-4-6 and claude-3-7-sonnet with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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