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Claude Opus 5 anthropic
Release timeline
Stages observed by the nightly radar: announced → API only → weights public → served by third parties. Each entry carries the source it was seen at.
- 2026-07-24 · API only source seeded from the earliest dated observation when first seen · observed 2026-10-07 20:20 UTC
Description
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...
via OpenRouter listing · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC. The listing text is the provider's own description, not an assessment.
Where to run 6 providers · 12 endpoints
Hosted endpoints observed for Claude Opus 5, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $5.00/M.
| Provider | Model ref | Context | Quant | $/M in | $/M out | tok/s | TTFT | Tools | Status | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $5.00 | $25.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
| Anthropic openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $5.00 | $25.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
| Azure openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $5.00 | $25.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
| Claude Platform on AWS openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $5.00 | $25.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
| DeepInfra deepinfra | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | — | $5.00 | $25.00 | — | — | — | live | 2026-10-24 |
| Google openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $5.00 | $25.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
| Amazon Bedrock openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $5.50 | $27.50 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
| Amazon Bedrock openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $5.50 | $27.50 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
| Azure openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $5.50 | $27.50 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
| Google openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $5.50 | $27.50 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
| Google openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $5.50 | $27.50 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
| Anthropic openrouter | anthropic/claude-opus-5 | 977K | unknown | $10.00 | $50.00 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
Third-party providers observed: 1 (DeepInfra). Cache-read price $0.50/M (source, observed 2026-10-24).
Facts
| Context length | 1,000,000 tokens (977K) · OpenRouter listing |
|---|---|
| Modalities | text + image + file → text |
| Max completion tokens | 128,000 |
| Supported parameters | include_reasoning, max_completion_tokens, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity |
| Openness | Closed weights · closed lab |
| Stage | API only |
| Confidence | medium |
| Pricing (USD per M tokens) |
in $5.00 · out $25.00 · cache read $0.50 OpenRouter list price (cheapest live endpoint) · source · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-4B | Qwen | 4.66B | 256K | — | apache-2.0 | vision input |
| Kimi-K3 | moonshotai | 2.78T | 1M | $0.23 | other | similar context (1.05M), cheaper input price ($0.2261/M vs $5/M), vision input |
| MiniMax-M3 | MiniMaxAI | 427B | 1M | $0.22 | other | similar context (1.05M), cheaper input price ($0.224/M vs $5/M), vision input |
| Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct | meta-llama | 10.7B | — | — | llama3.2 | vision input |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct | Qwen | 4.44B | 256K | — | apache-2.0 | vision input |
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Sources
- openrouter anthropic/claude-opus-5 · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC
- deepinfra anthropic/claude-opus-5 · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC
Radar run: 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC