Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · released Jul 24, 2026
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- $5.00
- Output
- $25.00
- Cached
- $0.50
List price · per 1M tokens · Anthropic at 1M context · source ↗
Our take
Written Aug 2, 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?
IntelligencePuzzles, maths, exam questions
Arena Text (overall)4th of 143 · 1491.8via High
Also on this board: 1490.4 via Max (Aug 2, 2026). Read the pair, not the higher one.
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding4th of 143 · 1532via High
Also on this board: 1523 via Max (Aug 2, 2026). Read the pair, not the higher one.
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Arena Agent (IPS)2nd of 36 · 0.119via Max
Also on this board: 0.117 via High (Jul 28, 2026). Read the pair, not the higher one.
WritingWe do not rate this
Two boards come close and neither tests writing: Arena Creative Writing asks people which of two replies they prefer, and LiveBench Language tests whether a model understood a passage. So we show where Claude Opus 5 placed and give it no mark out of five.
These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done, which is why they get no rating.
Every published score for this model16 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 16 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Or rent it from someone else
Why this differs from the header. The strip above quotes Anthropic's own list price. This is the cheapest live offer at the widest standard context we hold, whoever is serving it — a reseller undercutting a lab is ordinary commerce, not an error.
- per 1M tokens
- $5.00 in / $25.00 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| DeepInfra | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Microsoft Azure AIglobal | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M | 48 tok/s | No | No | Unknown |
| Microsoft Azure AIus-east-2 | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M | 55 tok/s | No | No | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIglobal | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M | 64 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Claude Platform on AWS | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M | 20 tok/s | No | Yes30 days | Unknown |
| Anthropic | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M128K out | 59 tok/s | No | Yes30 days | Unknown |
| Amazon Bedrock | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M | 57 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Amazon Bedrockclaude-on-aws | $5.00 / $25.00 | 1M | 56 tok/s | No | No | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIeurope | $5.50 / $27.50 | 1M | 54 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
DeepInfra
Microsoft Azure AI
Google Vertex AI
Amazon BedrockAcross the 10 listings we hold: 8 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 2 do not say. 3 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DeepInfra | |||
| Microsoft Azure AIglobal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Azure AIus-east-2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIglobal | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Claude Platform on AWS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anthropic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Amazon Bedrock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Amazon Bedrockclaude-on-aws | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIeurope | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Tool calling: 9 of 10 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. JSON output: 9 of 10 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. Strict schema: 7 of 10 listings say yes, 2 say no, 1 publishes no parameter list.
Models people weigh against Claude Opus 5
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- 1 of 10 listings publish no parameter list, so what their API accepts is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 2 of 10 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
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
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text+image+file->text
- Catalogue slug
- anthropic-claude-opus-5