Claude Opus 4 API Pricing
Anthropic · Frontier · Proprietary · released 2025-05. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-11.
Deprecated. The vendor has announced retirement of this model's API. It still carries a price because resellers still serve it; treat it as a model to migrate off, not one to start on.
- Input: $15.00 per 1M tokens
- Output: $75.00 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $1.50
- Context window: 200K
- Arena ELO: 1414 (as of 2026-09-02)
- AWS Bedrock regions: ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-3, ap-southeast-1, eu-central-1, eu-north-1, eu-south-1, eu-south-2, eu-west-1, eu-west-3, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.060 | $0.048 | $4.8K |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.090 | $0.071 | $7.1K |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.240 | $0.227 | $22.6K |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.173 | $0.166 | $16.6K |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.195 | $0.175 | $17.5K |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.068 | $0.061 | $6.1K |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.082 | $0.080 | $8.0K |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.315 | $0.258 | $25.8K |
Claude Opus 4 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 1 host. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-11 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Google (the price shown above) | $15.00 | $75.00 |
Models comparable to Claude Opus 4
The nearest Frontier models on Arena ELO, so a substitution is compared on quality as well as price.
- o1 (OpenAI) — $15.00 in / $60.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1402
- Claude Sonnet 4 (Anthropic) — $3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1390
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic) — $3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1455
- GPT-5.4 (OpenAI) — $2.50 in / $15.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1466
Common questions about Claude Opus 4 pricing
- How much does Claude Opus 4 cost?
- Claude Opus 4 costs $15.00 per million input tokens and $75.00 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Claude Opus 4 offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $1.50/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would Claude Opus 4 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Claude Opus 4 costs about $6.0K at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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