Use case
Claude Opus 4.6 image input
image input notes for claude-opus-4-6: the rate card, a worked volume, and when to send this ID. A sample of 1 million input tokens plus 200 thousand output tokens is about $2.00 on corouter (input $1.00, output $1.00).
Images count as input
Claude Opus 4.6 lists Vision. Image tokens bill at the input rate of $1.00. Generated text still bills at the output rate of $5.00.
Claude Opus 4.6 is listed with these modalities: Chat, Vision, Reasoning.
This ID
Claude Opus 4.6 is the earliest Opus 4 ID still on this rate card, at the same list rate as Opus 4.7. Send claude-opus-4-6 only when that older ID is the one in the request.
A sample of 1 million input tokens plus 200 thousand output tokens is about $2.00 on corouter (input $1.00, output $1.00).
Questions
- Which model ID should the request send?
- Send claude-opus-4-6. Do not put a different name in the model field.
- What is the minimum top-up?
- Prepaid credits, $5 minimum top-up, no subscription tier.