Anthropic · Released Jul 24, 2026
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis...
- #1GBAEval
- Top 5%SimpleBench
- Top 5%LMCA
- Top 6%ProofBench
- Released
- Jul 24 2026
- Context window
- 1M 128K out
- Input / 1M tokens
- $5.00
- Output / 1M tokens
- $25.00
Where to run it
5 providers compared
Cheapest: Claude Platform on AWS, Google, Anthropic +2 more at $5.00 / $25.00 per 1M input / output tokens — 50% less than the priciest option.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Context | Max output | Uptime | vs. best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Platform on AWS | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1M | 128K | 100%24h | Cheapest |
| Googleglobal | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1M | 128K | 100%24h | Cheapest |
| Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1M | 128K | 100%24h | Cheapest |
| Amazon Bedrock | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1M | 128K | 99.9%24h | Cheapest |
| Azureglobal | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1M | 128K | — | Cheapest |
| Amazon Bedrockeu-west-1 | $5.50 | $27.50 | $0.55 | 1M | 128K | 100%24h | +10% |
| Googleeurope | $5.50 | $27.50 | $0.55 | 1M | 128K | 100%24h | +10% |
| Azureus | $5.50 | $27.50 | $0.55 | 1M | 128K | — | +10% |
| Googleus | $5.50 | $27.50 | $0.55 | 1M | 128K | — | +10% |
| Amazon Bedrockus-east-1 | $5.50 | $27.50 | $0.55 | 1M | 128K | — | +10% |
| Anthropicfast | $10.00 | $50.00 | $1.00 | 1M | 128K | 100%24h | +100% |
Value
Price vs. performance
Claude Opus 5 Other Anthropic Other labs Value frontier · GPQA Diamond vs. input price per 1M tokens (log scale) · Drag to pan, pinch or Ctrl + scroll to zoom, double-click to zoom in.
Benchmarks
27 benchmark scores
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| FrontierSWESoftware engineering · Ultra-long-horizon engineering tasks with a 20-hour budget each | 52.0% | #6of 19 | GPT-6 Astra65.5% |
| DeepSWESoftware engineering · Original long-horizon tasks across active open-source repos | 73.7% | #3of 26 | GPT-6 Astra74.1% |
| CursorBenchSoftware engineering · Ambiguous multi-file tasks drawn from real Cursor sessions | 46.6% | #6of 16 | Claude Opus 5.557.8% |
| FrontierCodeSoftware engineering · Mergeable fixes for hard open-source issues | 53.4% | #3of 41 | Claude Opus 5.554.6% |
| GBAEvalSoftware engineering · Build a Game Boy Advance emulator from scratch | 79.6% | #1of 23 | This model |
| SciCodeSoftware engineering · Research-coding problems from the natural sciences | 56.4% | #22of 93 | Claude Opus 5.566.9% |
| WeirdML v3Software engineering · Unfamiliar ML and data tasks with vague goals | 19.0% | #8of 22 | GPT-6 Astra42.2% |
| APEX-AgentsAgents & computer use · Long professional tasks in banking, consulting and law | 65.8% | #6of 51 | Gemini 4 Argon82.4% |
| OSWorld 2.0Agents & computer use · Long real-world desktop and web tasks | 31.4% | #1of 9 | This model |
| Vending-Bench 2Agents & computer use · Run a simulated vending business for a year (final balance) | $11,182 | #4of 61 | GPT-6 Astra$15,515 |
| PostTrainBenchAgents & computer use · Post-train small models under a fixed compute budget | 35.0% | #3of 11 | Claude Fable 541.8% |
| GDP.pdfWriting & content · Answer questions about real professional PDFs | 24.0% | #13of 38 | GPT-6.1 Sol35.0% |
| SimpleQA VerifiedWriting & content · Factual accuracy on 1,000 short questions | 59.9% | #17of 66 | Gemini 4 Argon76.0% |
| WebDev ArenaDesign & visual · People vote on which model builds the better website (Elo) | 1687 | #7of 88 | Claude Opus 5.51820 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2Design & visual · Turn apartment photos into 2D floor plans | 30.4% | #18of 32 | Gemini 4 Argon54.4% |
| Furniture AssemblyDesign & visual · Spot mistakes in photos of IKEA builds | 60.8% | #7of 34 | Claude Opus 5.583.3% |
| GPQA DiamondReasoning & knowledge · PhD-level biology, chemistry and physics questions | 93.9% | #12of 92 | Gemini 4 Argon96.4% |
| ARC-AGI-2Reasoning & knowledge · Few-shot abstract reasoning on grid puzzles | 90.4% | #6of 63 | GPT-6 Astra95.0% |
| ARC-AGI-1Reasoning & knowledge · Pattern induction from input–output examples | 97.5% | #8of 63 | Gemini 4 Argon98.5% |
| SimpleBenchReasoning & knowledge · Common-sense trick questions about space, time and people | 80.6% | #2of 43 | Claude Fable 581.9% |
| CritPtReasoning & knowledge · Open-ended, research-level physics problems | 29.1% | #11of 96 | GPT-5.6 Sol32.3% |
| Chess PuzzlesReasoning & knowledge · Find the single best move in 100 new puzzles | 43.0% | #31of 70 | GPT-6 Astra76.0% |
| LMCAReasoning & knowledge · Judge the quality of conceptual arguments like experts | 64.5% | #4of 96 | Claude Sonnet 5.568.3% |
| FrontierMathMaths · Expert-written problems, undergrad to early research (tiers 1–3) | 85.6% | #12of 72 | GPT-6.1 Sol93.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4Maths · Exceptionally hard research-level problems | 73.2% | #11of 62 | GPT-6.1 Sol100.0% |
| ProofBenchMaths · Graduate maths proofs verified in Lean 4 | 99.0% | #4of 70 | Claude Sonnet 5.5100.0% |
| OTIS Mock AIMEMaths · Competition-style problems harder than MATH Level 5 | 98.9% | #14of 90 | Gemini 4 Argon100.0% |
Specs
Details
- Model ID
anthropic/claude-opus-5- Developer
- Anthropic
- Release date
- Jul 24, 2026 ·
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 128,000 tokens
- API price
- $5.00 / $25.00 per 1M input / output tokens
- Providers
- 5
- Input types
- text, image, file
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- Free tier
- No
Release date, prices and providers from OpenRouter's catalog; buying directly from a provider can cost a little differently. Uptime is the share of OpenRouter requests each provider served over the last day. Benchmark scores are the best result per benchmark from Epoch AI, licensed CC BY 4.0. Rank counts every model tracked here with a score.