Pricing · Anthropic

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic's claude-opus-5, 1M tokens of context. Every number on this page was read off Anthropic's own pricing page — never estimated, never recalled from memory.

Status at Anthropic

• Status: Active (legacy)
• "Although Claude Opus 5 is still available, you should consider migrating to Claude Opus 5.5 for improved performance." Claude Opus 5.5 pricing →
• Released July 24, 2026.
• Reliable knowledge cutoff May 2026; training data cutoff May 2026.
• Thinking: Adaptive. Default effort: high.

Read on Anthropic's model page on September 30, 2026.

Pricing

At the calculator's starting volume, 1M input tokens and 200K output tokens with no cache hits, Claude Opus 5 costs $10.00: $5.00 for input and $5.00 for output, at the prices above. Same formula as the calculator; change the volume there.

Where this price sits

$5.00 per 1M input tokens is the 55th cheapest input price of the 67 current models with a verified price on this site, and the 6th of Anthropic's 14. Output costs 5.0× the input price.

Other current models in the Opus family:

• Claude Opus 5.5 1M tokens $4.00 in · $20.00 out
• Claude Opus 4.8 1M tokens $5.00 in · $25.00 out
• Claude Opus 4.7 1M tokens $5.00 in · $25.00 out
• Claude Opus 4.6 1M tokens $5.00 in · $25.00 out
• Claude Opus 4.5 200K tokens $5.00 in · $25.00 out

Other price lists Anthropic publishes for Claude Opus 5

The prices above are Anthropic's Standard list, the one the table and the calculator use. Anthropic also sells Claude Opus 5 on 2 other lists, each with a condition. Figures and wording are quoted from Anthropic's own pages as read on the date shown; this site computes none of them.

• Batch · 50% discount on both input and output tokens · wait: results when the batch completes or after 24 hours

  Printed for Claude Opus 5: $2.50 input, $12.50 output, per 1M tokens.

  The Batch API allows asynchronous processing of large volumes of requests with a 50% discount on both input and output tokens. You can access batch results when all messages have completed or after 24 hours, whichever comes first.

  Source, read September 16, 2026

• Fast mode · double Standard · pay more for faster output, research preview, first-party API only

  Printed for Claude Opus 5: $10.00 input, $50.00 output, per 1M tokens.

  Fast mode, in research preview, provides significantly faster output for Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Opus 5, and Claude Opus 4.8 at premium pricing. Fast mode is not available with the Batch API.

  Source, read September 24, 2026

Mentioned in

One post on this site cites Claude Opus 5. The sentence is the post's own, taken from where it links here.

• The Second Price List: What Batch, Flex, Priority and Data-Sharing Discounts Cost Across Seven Providers · September 16, 2026

  The Batch table prices Claude Opus 5 at $2.50 / $12.50 against $5.00 / $25.00 and Claude Fable 5.1 at $5.00 / $25.00 against $10.00 / $50.00, and it covers every current Anthropic model in this dataset, thirteen rows, each of which now shows the discount on its page with the date it was checked.

Against Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 is the earlier version of the same name in this dataset (still current). Claude Opus 5 has the same prices as Claude Opus 4.8: input price ($5.00), output price ($25.00), cached input price ($0.50) per 1M tokens. Its prices were verified September 28, 2026: Claude Opus 4.8 pricing →

Specifications

Claude Opus 5 was released on July 24, 2026. It returns up to 128K tokens per response, against a context window of 1M tokens. Anthropic has committed not to retire it before July 24, 2027; no firm date is announced.

Questions about Claude Opus 5 pricing

How much does Claude Opus 5 cost per million tokens?

$5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output tokens, read on Anthropic's official pricing page on September 28, 2026.

What does a cached input token cost on Claude Opus 5?

$0.50 per 1M cached input tokens, 10% of the $5.00 input price; a 5-minute cache write costs $6.25, a 1-hour cache write costs $10.00 per 1M tokens.

Batch API discount (batchDiscount 0.5) verified by hand on 2026-09-16 against Anthropic's general pricing page, 'Batch processing' section: 'The Batch API allows asynchronous processing of large volumes of requests with a 50% discount on both input and output tokens', table row 'Claude Opus 5 $2.50 / MTok $12.50 / MTok'.

Verified September 28, 2026 against Anthropic's official pricing page. Confidence: confirmed. No price change recorded for this model. How the data is checked.

Other Anthropic models with a verified price

• Claude Haiku 4.5 Haiku $1.00 in · $5.00 out
• Claude Sonnet 5.5 Sonnet $2.00 in · $10.00 out
• Claude Sonnet 5 Sonnet $2.00 in · $10.00 out
• Claude Sonnet 4.6 Sonnet $3.00 in · $15.00 out
• Claude Opus 5.5 Opus $4.00 in · $20.00 out
• Claude Opus 4.8 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
• Claude Opus 4.7 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
• Claude Opus 4.6 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
• Claude Opus 4.5 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
• Claude Fable 5.1 Fable $10.00 in · $50.00 out
• Claude Mythos 5.1 Mythos $10.00 in · $50.00 out
• Claude Fable 5 Fable $10.00 in · $50.00 out
• Claude Mythos 5 Mythos $10.00 in · $50.00 out

Cheaper or equally priced alternatives

Current models with an input price at or below $5.00 per 1M tokens.

• GPT-Rosalind OpenAI $5.00 in · $25.00 out
• ChatGPT (chat-latest) OpenAI $5.00 in · $30.00 out
• Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic $5.00 in · $25.00 out
• Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic $5.00 in · $25.00 out

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