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Claude Opus 5 vs Phi 4

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Claude Opus 5 costs 102× as much as Phi 4: $20.00 against $0.196 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Claude Opus 5Phi 4
Input, per 1M tokens$5.00$0.07
Output, per 1M tokens$25.00$0.14
Context window1M16K
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$3.25$0.0434
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$20.00$0.196
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$52.50$0.63
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingyesno

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Phi 4 answers your requests as well as Claude Opus 5, moving that traffic saves 99% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Phi 4 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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