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Claude Opus 4.6
Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s strongest model for coding and long-running professional tasks. It is built for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts, making it especially effective...
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What published route metadata supports
CachingFile inputReasoningStructured outputTool useVisionWeb search
Input modalities
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Supported API parameters
include_reasoningmax_completion_tokensmax_tokensreasoningreasoning_effortresponse_formatstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_pverbosity
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OpenRouter catalog date2026-02-04
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| OpenRouterBatch | anthropic/claude-opus-4.6:batch | $2.5 | $0.25 | $12.5 | 1M | OpenRouter API ↗ |
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Tracking since Aug 26, 2026
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