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Claude Opus 4.5 Pricing

Anthropic · anthropic-claude-opus-4-5

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Input / 1M tokens
$5.00
Output / 1M tokens
$25.00
Context window
200k tokens
≈ 267 pages of text
Max output
64k tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.016
1,000 requests / month$16.00/mo10,000 requests / month$160.00/mo100,000 requests / month$1,600.00/mo
Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Claude Opus 4.5 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

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What it excels at

Strong performance on complex reasoning, coding, and long-document analysis within its 200k context window.

The business tradeoff

Elevated output-token pricing raises costs for generation-heavy use; available only via commercial API.

Cheaper from Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic$0.0064/ typical requestClaude Opus 4.8 (batch)Anthropic$0.008/ typical requestClaude Haiku 4.5Anthropic$0.0032/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

Qwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ typical requestGrok 4.3xAI$0.0025/ typical requestDeepSeek R1DeepSeek$0.0015/ typical request

Head-to-head

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen3.7 Plus →Claude Opus 4.5 vs Grok 4.3 →Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek R1 →

Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.