Claude Opus 5 pricing and routing profile
Claude Opus 5 from Anthropic lists at $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens, with a 1,000,000-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Tool callingStructured outputReasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $3.25 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $20.00 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $52.50 |
Before prompt caching. Try your own shape in the cost calculator.
Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Claude Opus 5. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Who serves Claude Opus 5
| Host | Input / output per 1M | Log probabilities | Uptime, last 30 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Platform on AWS | $5.00 / $25.00 | no | 98.9% |
| $5.00 / $25.00 | no | 100.0% | |
| Amazon Bedrock | $5.00 / $25.00 | no | 99.6% |
| Azure | $5.00 / $25.00 | no | 98.8% |
| Anthropic | $5.00 / $25.00 | no | 98.3% |
| Amazon Bedrock | $5.50 / $27.50 | no | — |
| Azure | $5.50 / $27.50 | no | — |
| $5.50 / $27.50 | no | — | |
| $5.50 / $27.50 | no | — | |
| Amazon Bedrock | $5.50 / $27.50 | no | — |
| Anthropic | $10.00 / $50.00 | no | 99.1% |
A host that lists log probabilities may still omit them; Gimbix checks each one before relying on it.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Claude Opus 5 that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | $4.00 / $12.00 | 36% |
| Ember-1 | $3.00 / $15.00 | 40% |
| Kimi K3 | $3.00 / $15.00 | 40% |
| GLM 5.3 Prime | $2.80 / $8.80 | 54% |
| GPT Audio | $2.50 / $10.00 | 55% |
| GPT-4o (2024-11-20) | $2.50 / $10.00 | 55% |
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Questions
How much does Claude Opus 5 cost?
Claude Opus 5 lists at $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $20.00 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Claude Opus 5?
1,000,000 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Claude Opus 5?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Claude Opus 5 on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.