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What Claude Opus 5 costs

Input
$5.00 /1M tokens
Output
$25.00 /1M tokens
Cached input
$0.50 /1M tokens
Released
July 24, 2026

Batch API: 50% off input and output.

1,000 chat messages1,500 tokens in, 500 out each$20.00
Summarize a 50-page PDF30,000 tokens in, 1,000 out$0.175
One coding-agent task60,000 tokens in, 4,000 out, no caching$0.40

Checked September 28, 2026. Official pricing · Status page

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Claude Opus 5: common questions

How much does Claude Opus 5 cost?

Through the Anthropic API, Claude Opus 5 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.50. That works out to about $20.00 for 1,000 typical chat messages. Prices checked September 28, 2026. The Batch API halves both prices.

Is Claude Opus 5 dumber today?

The rating at the top of this page shows how people who used Claude Opus 5 today rate it, from Lobotomized to Big brain, and the chart shows the last 30 days next to releases and official incidents. Ratings are opinions, not a benchmark. For outages, check the Anthropic status page.

When was Claude Opus 5 released?

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026. See every release and incident on the news page.

What are cheaper alternatives to Claude Opus 5?

Among frontier models, Grok 4.7 ($6.00 per 1,000 chats), Gemini 3.1 Pro ($9.00 per 1,000 chats), Claude Opus 5.5 ($16.00 per 1,000 chats) cost less for a typical chat workload. Compare everything in the cost calculator.

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