Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6

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Description

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...

Strengths

•Multimodal understanding with text and image support
•Large context window (1000k tokens)

Best For

Image and document understanding

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Description

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

Strengths

•Multimodal understanding with text and image support
•Large context window (1000k tokens)

Best For

Image and document understanding

Feature	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Provider	OpenRouter	OpenRouter
Context Length	`1,000,000 tokens`	`1,000,000 tokens`
Input Price	`$5.00/M`	`$3.00/M`
Output Price	`$25.00/M`	`$15.00/M`
Vision Support	Yes	Yes
Higher cost	Yes	Yes
Capabilities	TextVision	TextVision