MODEL COMPARE

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Opus 5: Pricing, Capabilities and Benchmarks

Compare Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Opus 5 across context window, API pricing, modalities, tool use and recommended use cases.

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Model AModel B

DECISION SUMMARY

Decision summary

Recommendations are conditional. Unknown values never count as a loss, and missing comparable benchmarks produce no winner.

Insufficient data

Evidence

comparable_coding_benchmark_missing

No same-source coding benchmark is attached to both model versions.

Insufficient data

Evidence

comparable_agent_benchmark_missing

Capabilities are listed, but a comparable agent benchmark is missing.

Claude Opus 5

Evidence

context_window_larger

Claude Opus 4.5=200000; Claude Opus 5=1000000

Tie

Evidence

same_provider_monthly_cost_lower

Claude Opus 4.5=10; Claude Opus 5=10; input=1000000; cached_input=0; output=200000; provider=OpenRouter

Insufficient data

Evidence

open_weights_support

Claude Opus 4.5=unknown; Claude Opus 5=unknown

MODEL ATTRIBUTES

Source scope: Provider endpoint

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Attribute	Claude Opus 4.5	Claude Opus 5	Winner
Context window`context_window_larger`Provider endpoint	200K	1M	Claude Opus 5
Maximum output`max_output_larger`Provider endpoint	64K	128K	Claude Opus 5
Input modalities`input_modalities_differ`Provider endpoint	File, Image, Text	Text, Image, File	Insufficient data
Output modalities`output_modalities_differ`Provider endpoint	Text	Text	Insufficient data
Tool calling`tool_calling_support`Provider endpoint	Supported	Supported	Tie
Structured output`structured_output_support`Provider endpoint	Supported	Supported	Tie
Reasoning`reasoning_support`Model	Supported	Supported	Insufficient data
Open weights`open_weights_support`Model	Unknown	Unknown	Insufficient data
Input price per 1M tokens`input_price_lower`Provider endpoint	$5	$5	Tie
Output price per 1M tokens`output_price_lower`Provider endpoint	$25	$25	Tie

USAGE ESTIMATOR

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Monthly input tokensMonthly output tokensCached input tokens

Claude Opus 4.5$10Estimated monthly cost

Claude Opus 5$10Estimated monthly cost