Model · Anthropic

Model the cost of deploying Claude Opus 4 across your highest-stakes AI workflows.

Claude Opus 4 is Anthropic's top-tier model, priced at $15 / $75 per million tokens. It excels at extended reasoning, deep analysis and long-context document understanding — at the highest output-token cost of any major model.

Input price

$15

per 1M tokens

Output price

$75

per 1M tokens

Context window

200K

Provider

Anthropic

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Embedded in core workflows. Mixed adoption.

AI-assisted tasks

3 / 3

Annual estimate

$76.1K

Total token OpEx for 50 employees · Claude Opus 4

Tokens per employee / year54.00M
Total tokens / year2.70B
Input tokens2.11B78%
Output tokens594.00M22%
Cost per employee / year$1.5K
Avg daily tokens / employee225.0K
Blended price$15.00 in · $75.00 out / 1M tokens
Working days assumed220
Task coverage100%

Strengths

  • Best-in-class reasoning
  • Excellent long-context handling
  • Strong code generation
  • Reliable nuanced writing

Best for

  • Legal analysis
  • M&A and financial modeling
  • Research synthesis
  • Senior-level review

Frequently asked questions

Why is Claude Opus 4 so expensive on output?

Opus 4's output pricing reflects the compute required for extended chain-of-thought reasoning. For output-heavy workloads, Sonnet 4 is 5x cheaper on output and often sufficient.

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