claude-opus-4 pricing
claude-opus-4 is priced at $15.00 per 1M input tokens and $75.00 per 1M output tokens, with roughly 300 ms to first token and about 55 tokens/sec output throughput.
Price per 1M tokens
Input $15.00 · Output $75.00 · Output/input ratio 5.0x.
- 1M input + 1M output tokens: $90.00
- 10M input + 2M output tokens/month: $300.00
- 100M input + 20M output tokens/month: $3000.00
Cheaper alternatives to claude-opus-4
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