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Claude Instant vs Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
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 (Fast) are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Instant
#7 by perf·#10 by attention
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
#122 by perf·no signal
Best value
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
Claude Instant
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no price
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
0.5 pts/$
$90.00/M
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | |
| $30.00 | $150.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $600.00 |