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claude-opus-5

Provided by Anthropic
Pay-as-you-go

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis of charts and documents, complex office deliverables, and coordinating parallel subagents. The model maintains strong instruction following and tool use across extended tasks, while remaining effective at lower effort settings for workloads that prioritize latency and token efficiency.

Model specs

Context length
1M
Max output
128K
I/O modalities
Text / Image
Released
2026-07

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API endpoints

One MixRoute gateway, OpenAI-compatible

  • Anthropic Messages /v1/messages POST
  • OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions POST

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Pricing

Flat rate, unit: /1M Tokens

Input

$5.0000 /1M Tokens

Completion

$25.0000 /1M Tokens

Cache read

$0.5000 /1M Tokens

Cache creation

$6.2500 /1M Tokens

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Selection summary

Quickly judge whether it fits your workload

What is this model good for?

Demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work

Use Claude Opus 5 for end-to-end software tasks, code review, bug finding, visual analysis of charts and documents, complex office deliverables, and coordinating parallel subagents. It maintains strong instruction following and tool use across extended tasks.

What should you check before using it?

Tune reasoning effort for your latency and cost needs

Claude Opus 5 remains effective at lower effort settings for workloads prioritizing latency and token efficiency. Test your agentic workflows at different effort levels to find the right balance for your use case.

Why use it through MixRoute?

Use the compatible endpoint with stable model ID

Use the confirmed compatible endpoint with model ID claude-opus-5 through MixRoute, then run the same integration tests used for the current client.

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FAQ

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis of charts and documents, complex office deliverables, and coordinating parallel subagents.

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