Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5Alternatives?
CheaperClaude Sonnet 5.5max+7%-7%$5.46No forced tool use+5
BetterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017maxOpen+1%-96%$0.26Pass back reasoning_content · Chat Completions+4Lower effortSame modelxhigh-2%-17%$4.88CheaperClaude Opus 5.5xhigh+7%-41%$3.46No forced tool use+5
CheaperGrok 4.7xhighsame-45%$3.24Context: 1M → 500K+5Claude Sonnet 5.5max+7%-7%$5.46No forced tool use+5Claude Opus 5.5xhigh+7%-41%$3.46No forced tool use+5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017maxOpen+1%-96%$0.26Pass back reasoning_content · Chat Completions+4Grok 4.7xhighsame-45%$3.24Context: 1M → 500K+5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017maxOpen+1%-96%$0.26Pass back reasoning_content · Chat Completions+4Claude Sonnet 5.5xhigh+1%-66%$2.01No forced tool use+5Claude Opus 5.5xhigh+7%-41%$3.46No forced tool use+5Claude Fable 5.1xhigh+1%same$5.98Replace forced tool_choice+5
Muse Wondermax+3%+47%$8.63Only auto tool_choice is supported+5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017maxOpen+1%-96%$0.26Pass back reasoning_content · Chat Completions+4
MiMo v2.6 ProthinkingOpen-2%-98%$0.13Pass back reasoning_content+3
GLM 5.3maxOpen-4%-66%$2.01No image input+4GLM 5.3 FlashmaxOpen-4%-95%$0.28Defaults to max · Self-hosted+4
Qwen3.8 FlashthinkingOpen-5%-94%$0.37Context: 1M → 262K+6Claude Opus 5.5max+8%same$5.98No forced tool use+5Claude Sonnet 5.5max+7%-7%$5.46No forced tool use+5Claude Fable 5.1max+2%+30%$7.63Replace forced tool_choice+5Claude Haiku 5.5max-5%-96%$0.21Remove sampling parameters+5Claude Fable 5max-6%+49%$8.75Claude Sonnet 5max-15%-13%$5.09Claude Opus 4.8max-16%-30%$4.08Claude Sonnet 4.6max-28%-58%$2.49All Anthropic models →History
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How much does Claude Opus 5 cost?›
$5 per 1M input tokens and $25 per 1M output tokens; cached input $0.50 per 1M. A typical benchmark task costs about $5.86 at max effort.
Is Claude Opus 5 free to use?›
There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $5 per 1M input tokens.
How good is Claude Opus 5, and what is it best at?›
#6 of 336 in Chat & Knowledge, #10 of 134 in Coding, #30 of 135 in Agents & Tool Use, #5 of 197 in Writing & Language, #5 of 125 in Vision & Documents. Strongest at: Coding, Agents & work tasks, Reasoning, Science, Long context, Knowledge, Vision.
Is Claude Opus 5 better than Claude Opus 4.8?›
On GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1, Claude Opus 5 scores 1,721.7 vs 1,453.7 — higher. It is 44% more expensive per task.
How can I use Claude Opus 5?›
Through the API of Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Azure, Claude Platform on AWS, DeepInfra and 1 more.
What is the context window of Claude Opus 5?›
1M tokens, with up to 128K output tokens.
When was Claude Opus 5 released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2026-07-24. It has been superseded by Claude Opus 5.5.
Is Claude Opus 5 open source?›
No, Claude Opus 5 is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017.
Can Claude Opus 5 read images?›
It accepts text and images, PDF files as input.
What is Claude Opus 5?›
Claude Opus 5 is a closed language model from Anthropic, released Jul 2026, the successor to Claude Opus 4.8.
What are the best alternatives to Claude Opus 5?›
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (cheaper), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (better).