Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · released Jul 24, 2026
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- $5.00
- Output
- $25.00
- Cached
- $0.50
List price · per 1M tokens · Anthropic at 1M context · machine-readable source ↗
Our take
Written Aug 4, 2026Anthropic's largest Claude model is built for demanding reasoning and coding tasks. It can handle up to one million tokens in a single request and is available across major cloud platforms. Choose it when output quality matters more than price.
Pick this for your hardest reasoning, coding and agentic workloads where output quality justifies the premium price. Use it for long-document work that actually uses the one-million-token limit. Skip it if cost matters more than quality, or if you need to self-host.
The case for it
- One-million-token limit: fits large codebases or hundreds of pages per request.
- Same first-party pricing across five major cloud providers.
- Accepts text, image and file inputs.
The case against it
- Output pricing is roughly ten times that of a large downloadable model such as GLM 5.2.
- Not downloadable, so API access only; no self-hosting path.
How good is it?
A closed text model for everyday questions, writing, coding and multi-step agent work.
- getting answers to everyday questionsArena Text (overall) · 9th of 168
- drafts, rewrites and editingArena Creative Writing · 10th of 168
- writing and completing codeArena Coding · 9th of 168
- multi-step work it carries out for youArena Agent · 3rd of 55
- changing course when you give new instructionsArena Agent · Steerability · 3rd of 55
- getting back on track after a step failsArena Agent · Recovery · 1st of 55
EverydayGeneral questions and everyday reasoning
Arena Text (overall)9th of 168 · 1491
Also on this board: 1488 (Sep 25, 2026). Read the pair, not the higher one.
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding9th of 168 · 1533
Also on this board: 1529 (Sep 25, 2026). Read the pair, not the higher one.
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Arena Agent3rd of 55 · 0.098
Also on this board: 0.095 (Sep 25, 2026). Read the pair, not the higher one.
WritingDrafting and rewriting prose
Arena Creative Writing10th of 168 · 1472
Also on this board: 1470 (Sep 25, 2026). Read the pair, not the higher one.
Placings on Arena's agent boards, from live sessions people ran themselves. A model can lead on one of these and sit mid-field on the others.
Boards this model appears on that none of the ratings above are built on.
Every published score for this model20 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 20 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Where to rent it
Prices checked between 57 min and 60 min ago — each listing carries its own date.
Anthropic, direct
The lab is also the cheapest we hold. The strip above and this offer are the same one, so nothing on this page undercuts Anthropic on 1M of context.
- per 1M tokens
- $5.00 in / $25.00 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- ~67 tok/s
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $5.00 / $25.00checked 60 min ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| DeepInfraDirect | $5.00 / $25.00checked 58 min ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Microsoft Azure AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | $5.00 / $25.00checked 59 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 59 tok/s | No | No | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | $5.00 / $25.00checked 59 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 63 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| AnthropicDirect | $5.00 / $25.00checked 57 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 67 tok/s | No | Yes30 days | Unknown |
| Amazon BedrockThrough OpenRouter | $5.00 / $25.00checked 59 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 62 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Claude Platform on AWSThrough OpenRouter | $5.00 / $25.00checked 59 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 66 tok/s | No | Yes30 days | Unknown |
| Microsoft Azure AIusThrough OpenRouter | $5.50 / $27.50checked 59 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 4 tok/s | No | No | Unknown |
| Amazon Bedrockus-east-1Through OpenRouter | $5.50 / $27.50checked 59 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 47 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Amazon Bedrockeu-west-1Through OpenRouter | $5.50 / $27.50checked 59 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 72 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google Vertex AIusThrough OpenRouter | $5.50 / $27.50checked 59 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 70 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google Vertex AIeuropeThrough OpenRouter | $5.50 / $27.50checked 59 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 65 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Anthropicfast tierThrough OpenRouter | $10.00 / $50.00checked 59 min ago | 1M128K max reply | 144 tok/s | No | Yes30 days | Unknown |
OpenRouter
DeepInfra
Microsoft Azure AI
Google Vertex AI
Amazon BedrockAcross the 13 listings we hold: 11 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 2 do not say. 6 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DeepInfraDirect | |||
| Microsoft Azure AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AnthropicDirect | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Amazon BedrockThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Claude Platform on AWSThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Azure AIusThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Amazon Bedrockus-east-1Through OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Amazon Bedrockeu-west-1Through OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Google Vertex AIusThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIeuropeThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AnthropicfastThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 12 of 13 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. JSON output: 12 of 13 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. Strict schema: 9 of 13 listings say yes, 3 say no, 1 publishes no parameter list.
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When we formed this view
Recent changes
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What we do not know about this model yet
- 1 of 13 listings publishes no parameter list, so what its API accepts is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 2 of 13 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text, images and documents in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- anthropic-claude-opus-5