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| Attribute | Claude Opus 4.6claude-opus-4-6 | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $5.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $25.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $6.25 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $10.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.50 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable model for coding and long-running professional workflows, designed for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts. It demonstrates strong performance on large codebases, complex refactoring, and multi-step debugging, with improved contextual understanding, deeper problem decomposition, and higher reliability on challenging engineering tasks compared to earlier generations. Beyond software development, Opus 4.6 excels at sustained knowledge work, producing near production-ready documents, technical plans, and analyses in a single pass while maintaining coherence across long outputs and extended sessions. Its strength in persistence, judgment, and structured execution makes it well suited for technical design, migration planning, and end-to-end project execution. | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. |