Claude Opus 5
premierProprietary dense model from Anthropic. Parameter count is undisclosed. Native 1M-token context, 128K max output, knowledge cutoff May 2026. Adaptive thinking is on by default and can only be disabled at high effort or below; effort levels run low through max. Prompt caching minimum is 512 tokens (down from 1,024 on Opus 4.8).
- Modalities: text, image, and PDF input; text output. Up to 600 images or PDF pages per request.
- Pricing (standard): $5/1M input, $25/1M output.
- Pricing (Fast mode): $10/1M input, $50/1M output.
Agents on Rails benchmark (Aug 2026, Le Mans round). 92.1% accuracy on 63 runs - the top score in the 16-model field. Anthropic positioned Opus 5 as a step-change in agentic coding and long-horizon tasks, and the Rails leaderboard is the first public, same-harness confirmation of that claim. The cost was roughly $1.90 mean per run, so the win is raw accuracy, not efficiency.
AI-generated content marks
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- 1000k
- proprietary
- 🇺🇸 USA
- Aug 2026
Scores
Score per dollar
19 pts per $/M input
general_score (95) divided by cheapest input price ($5.00/M). Higher is better value. See live pricing.
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Live per-provider pricing, throughput and uptime - refreshed about 1 month ago via OpenRouter. Click a column to sort.
some pricing may be stale - last verified 2026-08-15
| Provider | Type | Input $/M | Output $/M | Cache $/M | Tok/s | Latency | Uptime | Value |
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Anthropic
stale
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API | 5.00 | 25.00 | - | - | - | - | cheapest |
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DigitalOcean
stale
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API | 5.00 | 25.00 | 0.500 | - | - | - |
Default order: throughput among 95%+ uptime providers, then latency; subscriptions last. Sort by any column. Subscription rows show $/mo in the Value column - per-token columns are "-". Affiliate links are marked sponsored / nofollow. Confirm current pricing on the provider's site before committing.
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Inference cost over time
Data accumulates from the first daily sync - longer ranges populate over time. Prices come from OpenRouter snapshots, not a historical API.