Is Claude Opus 5 dumber today?
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What Claude Opus 5 costs
- Input
- $5.00 /1M tokens
- Output
- $25.00 /1M tokens
- Cached input
- $0.50 /1M tokens
- Released
- July 24, 2026
Batch API: 50% off input and output.
| 1,000 chat messages1,500 tokens in, 500 out each | $20.00 |
|---|---|
| Summarize a 50-page PDF30,000 tokens in, 1,000 out | $0.175 |
| One coding-agent task60,000 tokens in, 4,000 out, no caching | $0.40 |
Checked September 28, 2026. Official pricing · Status page
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- Claude Opus 5.5 releasedSep 22 · Release
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- Anthropic status: elevated errors on requests to multiple modelsAug 20 · Official incident
- Anthropic status: degraded performance for Claude Opus 5 and Haiku 4.5Aug 19 · Official incident
- Anthropic status: degraded performance for multiple modelsAug 18 · Official incident
All news → · Prices re-checked September 28, 2026.
Claude Opus 5: common questions
How much does Claude Opus 5 cost?
Through the Anthropic API, Claude Opus 5 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.50. That works out to about $20.00 for 1,000 typical chat messages. Prices checked September 28, 2026. The Batch API halves both prices.
Is Claude Opus 5 dumber today?
The rating at the top of this page shows how people who used Claude Opus 5 today rate it, from Lobotomized to Big brain, and the chart shows the last 30 days next to releases and official incidents. Ratings are opinions, not a benchmark. For outages, check the Anthropic status page.
When was Claude Opus 5 released?
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026. See every release and incident on the news page.
What are cheaper alternatives to Claude Opus 5?
Among frontier models, Grok 4.7 ($6.00 per 1,000 chats), Gemini 3.1 Pro ($9.00 per 1,000 chats), Claude Opus 5.5 ($16.00 per 1,000 chats) cost less for a typical chat workload. Compare everything in the cost calculator.