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Claude Opus 5.5

Available

An Anthropic model with a 1M-token context window, image input and tool calling. On the Anthropic API since September 22, 2026.

Access details: Anthropic API

The model ID to use in API requests.

claude-opus-5-5
Updated Sep 23, 2026

Capabilities & limits

Context window
1M
Maximum output
128K
Image input
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
Structured output
Supported

Pricing

USD / 1M tokens
Input
$4.00
Output
$20.00

Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on Anthropic's pricing page.

Full rate card 5 rates

All prices in USD.

Input tokens

$4.00 per 1M tokens
  • Claude API global standard

Output tokens

$20.00 per 1M tokens
  • Claude API global standard

Cache reads

$0.20 per 1M tokens
  • prompt caching

5 minute cache writes

$5.00 per 1M tokens
  • prompt caching
  • 5 minute duration

1 hour cache writes

$8.00 per 1M tokens
  • prompt caching
  • 1 hour duration

Batch API requests are discounted 50% on input and output.

Price history
Sep 23, 2026

Input $4.00 per million tokens

Sep 23, 2026

Output $20.00 per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters
Not published
Active parameters
Not published
Architecture
Not published
Training / knowledge cutoff
Jun 2026
Input modalities
Text, image
Output modalities
Text

How they describe it

For long-running agentic coding and knowledge work

What they say is new

It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.

Release & lifecycle

First available
Sep 22, 2026
available
As of Sep 23, 2026

Considering a switch?

Specs only go so far. Try both on your own tasks and compare quality, speed and cost.

Compare with GPT-5.6 Sol →

Prices and availability as of October 20, 2026. Anthropic's own pages have the latest.