Claude Opus 5 price: $5 / $25 per million tokens
What Claude Opus 5 costs through the API: $5 per million input tokens, $25 output, a 1,000,000-token context window. Real monthly cost, comparison and price history.
Data as of 2026-11-11.
Input$5
Output$25
Context1,000,000 tokens
per million tokens
What a month of work costs
Three typical workloads, calculated at the current price:
- Support assistant (10M tokens read, 2M written) $100 per month
- Content drafting (5M read, 5M written) $150 per month
- Long-document analysis (50M read, 1M written) $275 per month
Compared with similar models
| Model | Input | Output | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5 | $5 | $25 | 1,000,000 | |
| GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | $4 | $20 | 1,050,000 | 20% cheaper |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | $4 | $20 | 1,050,000 | 20% cheaper |
| Muse Wonder | $4 | $20 | 1,048,576 | 20% cheaper |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4 | $20 | 1,000,000 | 20% cheaper |
Price history
The price has not changed since we started tracking it (2026-09-09).
Source: OpenRouter price list, updated automatically every day. Prices exclude VAT.