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Claude Instant vs Claude Opus 4.6
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Claude Instant wins on 0/0 benchmarks
Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Instant · Claude Opus 4.6 are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Instant
#5 by perf·#10 by attention
Claude Opus 4.6
#54 by perf·#4 by attention
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Instant | — | — | — | — |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $100.00 |