Claude Opus 5 — API Pricing & Benchmarks
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's flagship reasoning model, released in 2026-07. The API costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.0 per 1M output tokens ($10.0 blended at a 3:1 ratio), with cached input at $0.50. It supports a 1M-token context window. On the independently measured Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index it scores 63.1, ranking #2 of 68 models tracked on this site, with a median output speed of 52 tokens/sec.
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| Provider | Anthropic |
| Input price / 1M tokens | $5.00 |
| Output price / 1M tokens | $25.0 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.50 |
| Blended price (3:1) | $10.0 |
| Context window | 1M |
| Max output tokens | 128K |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2026-05 |
| License | proprietary |
| Input modalities | T+I |
| Output speed (tok/s) | 52 |
| Released | 2026-07 |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 63.1 |
| LMArena Elo | 1505 |
| GPQA Diamond | 93.2% |
| SWE-bench Verified | 97% |
| LiveCodeBench | 74.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 91.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 54.9% |
Where Claude Opus 5 fits
On a blended 3:1 basis Claude Opus 5 costs $10.0 per 1M tokens, cheaper than 8% of the 80 priced models in this index. As Anthropic's flagship it is aimed at the hardest workloads — complex reasoning, agentic coding and multi-step tool use — where output quality dominates cost. Measured output speed of 52 tokens/sec is below the index median of 104 — typical of reasoning-heavy models, and worth checking against interactive latency budgets. Cached input is priced at $0.50 (90% below standard input), which rewards prompt structures with long stable prefixes — see our caching guide.
Price history
| Period | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Cached $/1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-26 → current | $5.00 | $25.0 | $0.50 |
No list-price changes recorded since tracking began. Full dataset: price-history.json (CC BY 4.0).
Alternatives at a similar price
- Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) — $10.0/1M blended, AA Index 57.3
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) — $10.0/1M blended, AA Index 55
- Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) — $10.0/1M blended, AA Index 44.9
- Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic) — $10.0/1M blended, AA Index 41.9
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About Anthropic
Anthropic builds the Claude family, organized into Opus (flagship), Sonnet (mid-tier) and Haiku (small) tiers alongside the Fable line. Claude models currently lead the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and are particularly strong on agentic-coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified.