Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Anthropic just made the 1M token context window generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6; and dropped the long-context pricing premium entirely. In this video, I break down why the pricing move matters more than the context length, what the MRCR v2 benchmark reveals about actual retrieval quality at scale, and what this means for agents, Claude Code, and RAG.
📌 Sources & Links:
Anthropic 1M Context GA Announcement:
claude.com/blog/1m-context-ga
Claude Opus 4.6 Launch Post:
anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
OpenAI API Pricing (GPT-5.4):
developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
Google AI Pricing (Gemini 3.1 Pro):
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
Claude Platform Docs — Context Windows:
platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/context-windows
Claude Pricing:
claude.com/pricing#api
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Anthropic just made the 1M token context window generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6; and dropped the long-context pricing premium entirely. In this video, I break down why the pricing move matters more than the context length, what the MRCR v2 benchmark reveals about actual retrieval quality at scale, and what this means for agents, Claude Code, and RAG.
📌 Sources & Links:
Anthropic 1M Context GA Announcement:
claude.com/blog/1m-context-ga
Claude Opus 4.6 Launch Post:
anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
OpenAI API Pricing (GPT-5.4):
developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
Google AI Pricing (Gemini 3.1 Pro):
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
Claude Platform Docs — Context Windows:
platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/context-windows
Claude Pricing:
claude.com/pricing#api
My Dictation App: whryte.com
Website: engineerprompt.ai
RAG Beyond Basics Course:
prompt-s-site.thinkific.com/courses/rag
Signup for Newsletter, localgpt: https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0
Let's Connect:
🦾 Discord: discord.com/invite/t4eYQRUcXB
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