Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
🇺🇸 Anthropic · Claude Opus
Overview
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 is a large language model API from Anthropic, part of its Claude Opus model family. With $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens, it is a premium-tier model where output volume is the main cost to watch. Output tokens cost about 5× as much as input, so prompt-heavy workloads run noticeably cheaper than generation-heavy ones. A large 200K-token context window (≈300 pages of text) lets it take in whole books, large codebases, or lengthy transcripts in a single call. Beyond plain text it also accepts File, Image input, so it can be applied to multimodal tasks rather than text alone. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores 41 (B grade), a useful proxy for its general reasoning strength relative to the other models tracked here. All prices on this page reflect OpenRouter's routed rates and are re-synced automatically every day; confirm against the provider's official pricing before committing to production.
| Dimension | Unit | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Input | per 1M tokens | $5.00 |
| Output | per 1M tokens | $25.00 |
| Cached Input | per 1M tokens | $0.500 |
| Cache Write | per 1M tokens | $6.25 |
| Web Search | per search | $0.010 |
- Provider
- Anthropic
- Model Family
- Claude Opus
- Version String
- anthropic/claude-opus-4.5
- Status
- Active
- Modality
- File, Image, Text
- Context Window
- 200,000 tokens
- Output Limit
- 64,000 tokens
Index Metrics
Cross-domain capability indexes evaluated by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Data source: Artificial Analysis
Performance Metrics
Real-world benchmarks, updated every 72 hours by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Use Case Analysis
Model strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases based on benchmarks and official documentation
Strength
- State-of-the-art Coding SWE-bench Verified 80.9%, highest among all frontier models. Leads 7 out of 8 programming languages. Official
- Token Efficiency Handles long-horizon coding tasks more efficiently, using up to 65% fewer tokens. Official
- Complex Reasoning & Agentic Tasks 15% improvement on Terminal Bench over Sonnet 4.5. Effectively manages teams of subagents. Official
Best For
- Complex Software Engineering Ideal for code generation, debugging, refactoring, and multi-file code modifications. Official
- Long-horizon Agentic Workflows Best for autonomous agents that need to plan and execute multi-step tasks over extended periods. Official
- Multi-agent Orchestration Highly effective at managing teams of subagents and coordinating complex multi-agent systems. Official
Weakness
- Higher Cost than Sonnet Priced at $5/$25 per MTok, 1.67x more expensive than Sonnet 4.5. Official
Not Recommended
- Real-time User-facing Apps Moderate latency makes it unsuitable for chatbots requiring sub-second response times. Official
90-Day Price Trend
Input / Output price (USD per 1M tokens)
Past 90 days of records; every price change is shown here
| Date | Dimension | Price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $25.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $25.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $25.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $25.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $25.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $25.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $25.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $25.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $25.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $6.25 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $25.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter |
Key Insights
Key data points from this page for quick reference and citation.
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 Input price: $5/M tokens
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 Output price: $25/M tokens
- Context window: 200,000 tokens
- Provider: Anthropic
- Model family: Claude Opus
- Modalities: File, Image, Text
- Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily