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Claude Opus 5 pricing

Complete Claude Opus 5 API cost reference: $5/M input, $25/M output, 1M token context window, $0.50/M cached reads. Verified against official sources.

Prices verified August 20, 2026
Claude Opus 5
Input / M
$5
Output / M
$25
Cache read
$0.50
Cache write
$6.25
Context
1M
Batch
Vision
Yes
Reasoning
Yes

What Claude Opus 5 costs in practice

WorkloadCost / callCost @ 1K req/day
Light · 1K in / 300 out$0.0200$608.75/mo
Standard · 10K in / 2K out$0.1500$4565.63/mo
Heavy · 100K in / 20K out$1.50$45656.25/mo

Estimates assume medium reasoning effort, no batch discounts and no prompt caching. Turn on prompt caching and the input side typically drops 50–90% — run your own mix in the free calculator preloaded with Claude Opus 5.

How Claude Opus 5 compares

About this page

Prices were last verified on August 20, 2026 against Anthropic's official pricing page. Providers reprice frequently — see our methodology for exactly how estimates are computed, and always confirm final rates with the provider before budgeting.

Claude Opus 5 FAQ

How much does Claude Opus 5 cost?

Claude Opus 5 charges $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, with cached input reads at $0.50/M.

What is the context window of Claude Opus 5?

Claude Opus 5 supports a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M) — roughly 750,000 English words or about 1,500 pages of text in a single request.

Does Claude Opus 5 support images, audio or reasoning?

Claude Opus 5 offers vision & image understanding, hidden reasoning tokens. Flagship. 1M context, thinking-on-by-default; cache reads at $0.50/M.

How do I estimate my Claude Opus 5 bill?

A typical workload of 10K input and 2K output tokens costs about $0.1500 per call with Claude Opus 5. At 1,000 requests per day that is roughly $4565.63 per month. Use the free AITokenCalculator to run your exact numbers.