Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s frontier reasoning model optimized for complex software engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It offers strong multimodal capabilities, competitive performance across real-world coding and reasoning benchmarks, and improved robustness to prompt injection. The model is designed to operate efficiently across varied effort levels, enabling developers to trade off speed, depth, and token usage depending on task requirements. It comes with a new parameter to control token efficiency, which can be accessed using the OpenRouter Verbosity parameter with low, medium, or high.
Opus 4.5 supports advanced tool use, extended context management, and coordinated multi-agent setups, making it well-suited for autonomous research, debugging, multi-step planning, and spreadsheet/browser manipulation. It delivers substantial gains in structured reasoning, execution reliability, and alignment compared to prior Opus generations, while reducing token overhead and improving performance on long-running tasks.
Providers
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).
| $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1.01s | 40 tok/s | ||
| $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | -- | -- | ||
| $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | -- | -- | ||
| $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1.51s | 39 tok/s | ||
| $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.50 | 1.11s | 33 tok/s | ||
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used | ||||||
| $5.50 | $27.50 | $0.55 | 1.38s | 79 tok/s | ||
- Input $5.00 / Output $25.0040 tok/s99.58% uptime
- Input $5.00 / Output $25.00-- tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $5.00 / Output $25.00-- tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $5.00 / Output $25.0039 tok/s99.94% uptime
- Input $5.00 / Output $25.0033 tok/s96.83% uptime
- Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
- Input $5.50 / Output $27.5079 tok/s100.00% uptime
Pricing
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Weighted average
Claude Opus 4.5 — Price history
| $4.17 | $25.00 | 19.7% | 40.7% | ||
| $4.51 | $25.00 | 12.5% | 2.2% | ||
| $4.56 | $25.00 | 10.7% | 26.8% | ||
| $4.82 | $25.00 | 5.2% | 29.0% | ||
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 0.0% | 0.5% | ||
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used | |||||
| $4.55 | $27.50 | 33.0% | 0.6% | ||
- Effective in $4.17 / Effective out $25.00Token share40.7%
- Effective in $4.51 / Effective out $25.00Token share2.2%
- Effective in $4.56 / Effective out $25.00Token share26.8%
- Effective in $4.82 / Effective out $25.00Token share29.0%
- Effective in $5.00 / Effective out $25.00Token share0.5%
- Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
- Effective in $4.55 / Effective out $27.50Token share0.6%
Performance
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
P50, best across providers
P50, best provider
Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Availability over the last 3 days
Last 72 hoursAvailability over the last 24 hours
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) GPQA Diamond | 86.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) HLE | 30.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) IFBench | 58.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom | 89.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) AA-LCR | 77.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) CritPt | 4.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) LiveCodeBench | 87.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard | 47.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) MMLU-Pro | 89.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) AIME 2025 | 91.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond | 81.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) HLE | 13.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) IFBench | 43.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom | 86.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR | 70.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) CritPt | 0.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) LiveCodeBench | 73.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard | 40.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) MMLU-Pro | 88.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) AIME 2025 | 62.7% |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Models Arena 3D Elo | 1193 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Models Arena Asciiart Elo | 1185 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Models Arena Code Categories Elo | 1232 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Models Arena Data Visualization Elo | 1240 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Models Arena Game Development Elo | 1218 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Models Arena SVG Elo | 1170 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Models Arena UI Component Elo | 1228 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Models Arena Website Elo | 1239 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Agents Arena Androidnative Elo | 1162 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Agents Arena Full Stack Elo | 1128 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Agents Arena Mobile Apps Elo | 1181 |
| Design Arena | Claude Opus 4.5 Agents Arena Webapps Elo | 1136 |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) AIME | 76.9% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) CorpFin v2 | 61.3% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) Finance Agent v1 | 54.5% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) GPQA Diamond | 79.5% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) IOI v1 | 23.6% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) LiveCodeBench | 75.0% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) LegalBench | 82.8% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) MedCode | 45.2% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) MedQA | 93.2% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) MedScribe | 83.2% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) MGSM | 94.8% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) MMLU Pro | 85.6% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) MMMU Pro | 81.1% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) MortgageTax | 68.7% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) Vals RSI Index | 14.8% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) SAGE v1 | 45.0% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) TaxEval v2 | 74.3% |
| Vals AI | Claude Opus 4.5 (Nonthinking) Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 58.4% |
Apps
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
API
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Available through EU in-region routing
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).
- Providers in Europe
- Amazon Bedrock
- Prices in Europe
- Amazon Bedrock: $5.50/M tokens input, $27.50/M tokens output
- Base URL
https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1- Plan
- Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing
Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs
Frequently asked questions
Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s frontier reasoning model optimized for complex software engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It offers strong multimodal capabilities, competitive performance across real-world coding and reasoning benchmarks, and improved robustness to prompt injection.
Claude Opus 4.5 costs $5.00/M input tokens and $25.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.50/M tokens, Cache Write at $6.25/M tokens, Cache Write (1h) at $10.00/M tokens, and Web Search at $10.00/1K calls.
Claude Opus 4.5 has a 200,000 token context window. It supports up to 64,000 completion tokens.
Yes. Claude Opus 4.5 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
Claude Opus 4.5 accepts files such as PDFs, images, and text as input and returns text.
Claude Opus 4.5 is served by 5 providers on OpenRouter: Claude Platform on AWS, Azure, Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock, and Anthropic. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.
Claude Opus 4.5 was released on November 24, 2025.