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Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Opus 4.6: prices per token, context window, benchmark scores, and what changed between the two versions.

The short version

  • Claude Opus 5 and Claude Opus 4.6 are priced identically

The two versions side by side

Prices are read live from the provider pricing pages, so this table cannot go stale.

VersionStatusReleasedInputOutputCachedContextBlended /1MSample /mo
5
Listed in Anthropic's Legacy models section; superseded by Opus 5.5.
Price your own usage
Legacy—$5.00$25.00$0.5001,000K$15.00$17.50
Claude Opus 4.6
4.6
Listed in Anthropic's Legacy models section; superseded by Opus 5.5.
Price your own usage
Legacy—$5.00$25.00$0.500200K$15.00$17.50

Sample cost = 1M input + 500K output tokens per month at list price. A model with a long-context band is priced on that band — the rule is printed in the row. Use the calculator below for your own workload.

Benchmark scores

Only one version of this line has a verifiable score set so far, so there is nothing to compare it against yet.

What your usage would cost

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Claude Opus 5
$450/mo
Claude Opus 4.6
$450/mo

List price only: cached input, batch discounts and off-peak rates are not included. The sample column prices 1M input + 500K output tokens per month.

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