Claude Opus 4.6 API
Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic on one AI Creator API key, in Claude Code, Codex, Cline, OpenCode and Aider. You pay for the actual tokens; the balance is in dollars, topped up by card or crypto.
Price per 1M tokens
Prices as of
| Tokens | AI Creator API |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.252 |
| Cache read | $0.026 |
| Cache write, 5 minutes | $0.521 |
| Cache write, 1 hour | $0.521 |
| Output | $1.26 |
- A dash means the model has no such price. Cache reads and writes are counted apart from input: a token lands in one counter only.
- Every model and its prices are on the pricing page.
Specs
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Id for the model field | claude-opus-4-6 |
| Vendor | Anthropic |
| Protocols | OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages |
| Context | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 64K tokens |
How to connect
You need an sk-aic-… key: the dashboard issues it after you sign in. Then set up your tool.
Claude Code
The model to work on is set by ANTHROPIC_MODEL; the other variables pin the models behind Claude Code’s names, or it may send an id we do not list. In detail: the Claude Code setup.
unset ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.aicreator.app
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=sk-aic-…
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL=claude-opus-5-5
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL=claude-sonnet-5-5
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL=claude-haiku-5-5
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_FABLE_MODEL=claude-fable-5-2
export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=claude-opus-4-6
claudeCodex CLI
The key goes in the AIC_API_KEY variable. In detail: the Codex setup.
model = "claude-opus-4-6"
model_provider = "aic"
[model_providers.aic]
name = "AI Creator"
base_url = "https://api.aicreator.app/v1"
env_key = "AIC_API_KEY"
wire_api = "responses"
stream_idle_timeout_ms = 300000Cline, OpenCode, Aider and the OpenAI SDK
The OpenAI Chat Completions protocol, model id claude-opus-4-6. Tool setup: Cline, OpenCode, Aider. Check the key with a request:
curl https://api.aicreator.app/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AIC_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "claude-opus-4-6", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'Other Anthropic models
- Claude Opus 5.5 input $0.248 / output $1.24
- Claude Opus 5 input $0.255 / output $1.273
- Claude Opus 4.8 input $0.319 / output $1.593
- Claude Opus 4.7 input $0.828 / output $4.14
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 input $0.147 / output $0.733
- Claude Sonnet 5 input $0.133 / output $0.662
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 input $0.486 / output $2.43
- Claude Haiku 5.5 input $0.123 / output $0.734
- Claude Haiku 4.5 input $0.193 / output $0.965
- Claude Fable 5.2 input $2.25 / output $11.25
- Claude Fable 5.1 input $0.411 / output $2.055
- Claude Fable 5 input $0.515 / output $2.571