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Claude Opus 5 vs Command A

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Claude Opus 5 costs 2.2× as much as Command A: $20.00 against $9.00 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Claude Opus 5Command A
Input, per 1M tokens$5.00$2.50
Output, per 1M tokens$25.00$10.00
Context window1M256K
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$3.25$1.60
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$20.00$9.00
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$52.50$25.00
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingyesno

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Command A answers your requests as well as Claude Opus 5, moving that traffic saves 55% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Command A does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

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