Claude Opus 5 API Pricing & Cost Calculator
Claude Opus 5 keeps the same pricing tier as its predecessors - the Opus 5 leap is intelligence, not price. Lean hard on the 90% cache discount to make repetitive agentic loops affordable.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 succeeds Opus 4.8 as the flagship Claude reasoning model, with a 1-million-token context window and refined instruction following for complex multi-step planning.
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Cost Comparison
Based on 100,000 input tokens (50% cached), 5,000 output tokens, and 100 requests.
How this is calculated
Claude Opus 5 is priced at $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens, the same rates as Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Opus 4.7. It supports a 90% prompt caching discount ($0.50 per million cached reads) and a 50% batch discount ($2.50 per million inputs, $12.50 per million outputs) via Anthropic's Message Batches API.
Verdict
Claude Opus 5 keeps the same pricing tier as its predecessors - the Opus 5 leap is intelligence, not price. Lean hard on the 90% cache discount to make repetitive agentic loops affordable.
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