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The cost to run the full test suite was $2,486, exceeding the $2,304 required for GPT-5.2 at its maximum reasoning capacity. Opus 4.6 consumed approximately 58 million output tokens, which is double the amount used by Opus 4.5 but significantly lower than GPT-5.2's 130 million. The higher overall cost is attributed to Anthropic's token pricing, set at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Opus 4.6 is accessible via the Claude.ai application, as well as through Anthropic's API, Google Vertex, AWS Bedrock, and Microsoft Azure.
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