Claude Opus 4 API Pricing
Anthropic · Frontier · Proprietary · released 2025-05. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-08-14.
- 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: 1381 (as of 2026-08-13)
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 |
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.