Claude Opus 5

The successor to Opus 4.8, positioned for agentic coding and enterprise work and approaching Claude Fable 5 on capability, with adaptive thinking per task.

Context: 1M tokens
Max output: 128K
Cutoff: May 2026
Released: Jul 2026

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Hosted API price

List price via Anthropic · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $5.00 /1M
Output: $25.00 /1M
Hosted by: 2 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

Transparency and funding

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Every provider serving Claude Opus 5, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Claude Opus 5, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Anthropic Creator	$5.00	$25.00	$0.50	$100.00	Visit website
DigitalOcean	$5.00	$25.00	$0.50	$100.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Claude Opus 5 by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Claude Opus 5 per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic	$6.6667	$4.00	$20.00	1M	Jun 2026	−20%
Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic	$8.3333	$5.00	$25.00	200K	May 2025	0%
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic	$8.3333	$5.00	$25.00	1M	May 2025	0%
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic	$8.3333	$5.00	$25.00	1M	Jan 2026	0%
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic	$8.3333	$5.00	$25.00	1M	Jan 2026	0%
Claude Opus 5 This model Anthropic	$8.3333	$5.00	$25.00	1M	May 2026
GPT-5.5 OpenAI	$9.1667	$5.00	$30.00	1M	Dec 2025	+10%
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	$16.6667	$10.00	$50.00	1M	Jan 2026	+100%
Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic	$16.6667	$10.00	$50.00	1M	Jun 2026	+100%
GPT-6 Astra OpenAI	$16.6667	$10.00	$50.00	1M	Apr 2026	+100%
o3-pro OpenAI	$30.00	$20.00	$80.00	200K	Jun 2024	+260%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Claude Opus 5 accepts and can do, as published by Anthropic.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
File upload Process uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and other files.
MCP Connect to services via Model Context Protocol.

Common questions

What is Claude Opus 5 good for?

Agentic coding and enterprise work, with thinking depth adjusted per task. It is priced at Anthropic's Opus tier, below Claude Fable 5.

When is Claude Opus 5 not a good fit?

Cost-sensitive high-volume work, where Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 sit lower in Anthropic's range. No audio or video input, text-only output, and closed weights, so no self-hosting.

What is the cheapest way to run Claude Opus 5?

The cheapest hosted rate is $5.00 / $25.00 per 1M tokens via Anthropic.

How does Claude Opus 5 compare with Claude Opus 5.5?

Anthropic calls Claude Opus 5.5 a major step up from Claude Opus 5 that needs less compute to serve and writes more clearly, and says it resists prompt injection better. Thinking can no longer be disabled and forced tool use now returns an error. Same 1M-token context and text and image input. Claude Opus 5 lists at 25% more per 1M input tokens and 25% more per 1M output tokens than Claude Opus 5.5. It came out 2 months earlier and has an older knowledge cutoff (May 2026 against June 2026).

Can I self-host Claude Opus 5?

No. Anthropic does not publish the weights; Claude Opus 5 is available only through hosted APIs.