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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 ·Anthropic vs Anthropic

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 profile claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 — Anthropic
Quality
#13 of 65
87based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#297 of 356
37.5
Output tokens per second
Price
#467 of 504
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#351 of 384
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#189 of 550
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 — Anthropic
Quality
#23 of 65
74based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
—
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
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Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
—
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
—
tokens
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 scores 87 and claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 scores 74 — a 13-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6. They share 3 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 ahead on 3 and claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 only, at $10.00 per 1M tokens blended.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 is proprietary; claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 is proprietary. 5 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 8 Oct 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219
Known Good Index 87 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 74 based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 —
Output tok/s 38 —
Context window 1.00M —
Providers 5 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219
Known Good Index 87 74
Coding Index 92 71
Mathematics Index — 72
Reasoning Index 77 84
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 · marker = claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 77
Mock AIME 2024–2593 / 53
SWE-bench Verified79 / 61

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 / claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 leads on 3 of 3, claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219
Text Arena 1,498 1,299
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,497 1,373
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219
Input $/1M $5.00 —
Output $/1M $25.00 —
Blended $/1M $10.00 —
Cache read $/1M $0.500 —
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219
Context window 1.00M —
Max output tokens 128k —
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219
Output tokens/s 38 —
Time to first token 2.0s —
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

5 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 tok/s claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 blendedclaude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 tok/s
Google · first party $10.00 40 — —
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 39 — —
Claude Platform on AWS $10.00 39 — —
Anthropic · first party $10.00 36 — —
Azure · first party $10.00 30 — —

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →