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Claude Opus 5 Pricing
Anthropic · anthropic-claude-opus-5
Input / 1M tokens
$5.00
Output / 1M tokens
$25.00
Context window
1M tokens
≈ 1,333 pages of text
Max output
128k 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/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Claude Opus 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
Performs well on extended-context reasoning, multi-document synthesis, and tasks requiring precise instruction following over long inputs.
The business tradeoff
High output-token pricing increases cost for generation-heavy workloads; large context can introduce variable latency depending on input length.
Cheaper from Anthropic
Same tier from other providers
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jul 24, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.