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Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 5 versus Claude Opus 4.6 on list price and published Arena rating. Claude Opus 5 Arena 1509 · Claude Opus 4.6 Arena 1501 Blended list price Claude Opus 5 $20.00 and Claude Opus 4.6 $20.00 per 1M tokens.

Claude Opus 5AnthropicArena 1509$20.00 / 1M
Claude Opus 5 leads by 7 Arena pointsBlended list prices are nearly the same.
Claude Opus 4.6AnthropicArena 1501$20.00 / 1M

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic

Input / 1M$5.00Output / 1M$25.00Arena1509Value1741,000 coding edits$30.00

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Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic

Input / 1M$5.00Output / 1M$25.00Arena1501Value1601,000 coding edits$30.00

Open model

Claude Opus 5 leads by 7 Arena points. Blended list prices are nearly the same., moving from Claude Opus 5 to Claude Opus 4.6. The 1,000-edit cost uses a planning assumption of 2,000 input and 800 output tokens, not a measured trace. Share this face-off. The link renders an Open Graph image of the two models.