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Claude 3 Opus vs Claude Opus 4.6

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude 3 Opus wins:

  • No clear advantages in compared metrics

Claude Opus 4.6 wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Has reasoning mode
Price Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.6
Speed
Claude Opus 4.6

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude 3 OpusClaude Opus 4.6
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude 3 OpusClaude Opus 4.6
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicAnthropic
ReleasedUnknownFeb 2026

Claude 3 Opus Modalities

Input
Output

Claude Opus 4.6 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

Claude Opus 4.6 has cheaper input pricing at $5.00/M tokens. Claude Opus 4.6 has cheaper output pricing at $25.00/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 47.6, compared to Claude 3 Opus's score of 19.5.
Claude 3 Opus has a 200,000 token context window, while Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1,000,000 token context window.
Claude 3 Opus supports vision. Claude Opus 4.6 supports vision.

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