Claude Opus 5 pricing & price history
Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $5.00 input / $25.00 output.
Price history
No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check every 10 minutes.
Which platform runs Claude Opus 5 most reliably
5 platformsBy 30-day real-traffic success rate, Claude Platform on AWS is the most stable and also the cheapest.
| Platform | Last 30 days | Stability | 24 h | 30 min | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Platform on AWS most stable | Consistently stableavg 99.99% | 100% | 100% | ||
| Anthropic official | Consistently stableavg 99.97% | 100% | 100% | ||
| Amazon Bedrock | Consistently stableavg 99.97% | 100% | 100% | ||
| Occasional issues (1 d)avg 99.72% | 100% | 100% | |||
| Azure | Often unstable (2 d)avg 92.66% | 100% | — |
Success rates come from real API traffic routed to each platform (public OpenRouter data), not our probes; each daily bar is the average of that day's samples. Green ≥ 99.5 %, yellow ≥ 97 %, orange ≥ 90 %, red < 90 %. Updated 28m ago.
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About Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis...
FAQ
How much does Claude Opus 5 cost?
Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $5.00 input / $25.00 output. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0225.
What is the context window of Claude Opus 5?
Claude Opus 5 supports up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and up to 128,000 output tokens per request.
Has Claude Opus 5’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is Claude Opus 5 being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Claude Opus 5 as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to Claude Opus 5?
Cheaper options include Claude Haiku 5.5 ($0.10/$0.50), Hy4 ($0.42/$1.25), GPT-6.1 Terra ($1.00/$5.00), Muse Spark 1.3 ($1.25/$4.25).