Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work, succeeding Claude Opus 5.
Ways to buy 13
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The lab's own API · cached $0.2 | $4 | $20 | $4 / $20List price | $0.2 | List price |
Default region · cached $0.2 | $4 | $20 | $4 / $20Same as list | $0.2 | Same as list |
global · cached $0.2 | $4 | $20 | $4 / $20Same as list | $0.2 | Same as list |
Default region · cached $0.2 | $4 | $20 | $4 / $20Same as list | $0.2 | Same as list |
From the platform pricing page | $4 | $20 | $4 / $20Same as list | n/a | Same as list |
global · cached $0.2 | $4 | $20 | $4 / $20Same as list | $0.2 | Same as list |
eu-west-1 · cached $0.22 | $4.4 | $22 | $4.4 / $22+10% vs list | $0.22 | +10% vs list |
us-east-1 · cached $0.22 | $4.4 | $22 | $4.4 / $22+10% vs list | $0.22 | +10% vs list |
us · cached $0.22 | $4.4 | $22 | $4.4 / $22+10% vs list | $0.22 | +10% vs list |
europe · cached $0.22 | $4.4 | $22 | $4.4 / $22+10% vs list | $0.22 | +10% vs list |
us · cached $0.22 | $4.4 | $22 | $4.4 / $22+10% vs list | $0.22 | +10% vs list |
From the platform pricing page | $4.8 | $24 | $4.8 / $24+20% vs list | n/a | +20% vs list |
fast · cached $0.4 | $8 | $40 | $8 / $40+100% vs list | $0.4 | +100% vs list |
USD per 1M tokens; batch $2 in, $10 out on the lab's API. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $800.00 direct.
Kong AI Gateway$800.00+0%
LiteLLM$800.00+0%
Neon AI Gateway$800.00+0%
Vercel AI Gateway$800.00+0%
Cloudflare AI Gateway$840.00+5%
Requesty$840.00+5%
Eden AI$844.00+5.5%
OpenRouter$844.00+5.5%
HeliconeNot offeredNot offered
A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
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About Claude Opus 5.5
Takes text, image, files in and returns text. First listed Sep 23, 2026. Up to 128K output tokens. Blended price $8 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Overall score 45 on leadersboard.fru.dev (rank 4). Model id claude-opus-5-5.
Price history
List price since Sep 23, 2026, from daily reads of the OpenRouter catalog.
Questions
How much does Claude Opus 5.5 cost?
$4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.2, or $2 and $10 through the Batch API.
What is the context window of Claude Opus 5.5?
1M tokens, with up to 128K tokens of output.
Where is Claude Opus 5.5 cheapest?
Of 13 routes tracked, AWS Bedrock is cheapest at $4 input and $20 output per million tokens.