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Claude Opus 4.5

Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

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Canonical slug: claude-opus-4-5-thinking · Canonical model registry at build time

Intelligence

41 score

Speed

59.7 output tokens/sec

Latency

13.31s TTFT

Input Price

$5.00 / 1M tokens

Output Price

$25.00 / 1M tokens

Executive Assessment

Routing Verdict & Tradeoffs

Ethen Routing Verdict

Frontier research / complex reasoning

Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) scores 41 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among other reasoning models in a similar price tier (median: 28). Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) generates output at 59.7 tokens per second (based on Anthropic's API), which is below average compared to other reasoning models in a similar price tier (median: 81.2 t/s). Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens (at the higher end, median: $1.50) and $25.00 per 1M output tokens (at the higher end, median: $8.40), based on Anthropic's API.

Reserve this model for the hardest requests; simpler or repetitive work should stay on cheaper routes.

Task Fit Assessment

WorkloadRatingNotes
Complex reasoning & agentic workflowsoptimalIntelligence score 41 places this model among top performers. Suitable for multi-step analysis and agentic loops.
High-volume chat & customer-facingoptimalOutput speed 59.7 tokens/sec is adequate for chat.
Latency-sensitive applicationsviableTTFT 13.31s — latency may be noticeable in interactive use.
Cost-sensitive pipelinesviableOutput pricing at $25.00 is premium. Route high-volume simple tasks to cheaper alternatives.

Cost Pressure Analysis

High

Pricing is premium — input $5.00, output $25.00. This model is expensive for high-volume or output-heavy workloads.

Cheaper substitutes: Lower-cost models for repetitive or high-volume work, Cache-backed reuse for repeated prompts

Technical Specifications

Architecture and Limits

SpecificationValueValidation Authority
Model typeProprietaryinferred
ReasoningYesfaq
Input modalitiesClaude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) supports text and image input.faq
Output modalitiesClaude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) supports text output.faq
Context window200k tokensfaq
Open weights / sourceNo, Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) is proprietary. The model weights are not publicly available.faq
ParametersClaude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) is a proprietary model and Anthropic has not disclosed the model size or parameter count.faq
Knowledge cutoffClaude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) has a knowledge cutoff of August 2025. The model's training data includes information up to this date.faq
API availabilityYes, Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) is available via API through 4 providers.faq

Evidence charts

Profile visualizations

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AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience Index (higher is better) measures knowledge reliability and hallucination. It rewards correct answers, penalizes hallucinations, and has no penalty for refusing to answer. Scores range from -100 to 100, where 0 means as many correct as incorrect answers, and negative scores mean more incorrect than correct. · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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0204060Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 4040AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 3333GGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewClaude Opus 4.8 (max): 2727AClaude Opus 4.8 (max)Claude Opus 4.7 (max): 2626AClaude Opus 4.7 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 2323GGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5 (xhigh): 2020AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)GPT-5.5 (high): 1818AIGPT-5.5 (high)Grok 4.3 (high): 1818xGrok 4.3 (high)GPT-5.5 (medium): 1717AIGPT-5.5 (medium)Claude Sonnet 5 (max): 1515AClaude Sonnet 5 (max)Claude Opus 4.5: 1313AClaude Opus 4.5

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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0204060Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 6060AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…Claude Opus 4.8 (max): 5656AClaude Opus 4.8 (max)GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 5555AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Claude Opus 4.7 (max): 5454AClaude Opus 4.7 (max)Claude Sonnet 5 (max): 5353AClaude Sonnet 5 (max)GPT-5.5 (high): 5353AIGPT-5.5 (high)GPT-5.4 (xhigh): 5151AIGPT-5.4 (xhigh)GLM-5.2 (max): 5151?GLM-5.2 (max)GPT-5.5 (medium): 5050AIGPT-5.5 (medium)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 5050GGemini 3.5 Flash

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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Independent test run by Artificial Analysis on dedicated hardware.

0204060Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 6060AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…Claude Opus 4.8 (max): 5656AClaude Opus 4.8 (max)GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 5555AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Claude Opus 4.7 (max): 5454AClaude Opus 4.7 (max)Claude Sonnet 5 (max): 5353AClaude Sonnet 5 (max)GPT-5.5 (high): 5353AIGPT-5.5 (high)GPT-5.4 (xhigh): 5151AIGPT-5.4 (xhigh)GLM-5.2 (max): 5151?GLM-5.2 (max)GPT-5.5 (medium): 5050AIGPT-5.5 (medium)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 5050GGemini 3.5 Flash

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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0204060Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 6060AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 5555AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)GLM-5.2 (max): 5151?GLM-5.2 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 5050GGemini 3.5 FlashMiniMax-M3: 4444?MiniMax-M3DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 4444DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Kimi K2.6: 4444KKimi K2.6Muse Spark: 4343?Muse SparkClaude Opus 4.5: 4141AClaude Opus 4.5Nemotron 3 Ultra: 3838NNemotron 3 Ultra

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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088175263350gpt-oss-120b (high): 316316AIgpt-oss-120b (high)Nemotron 3 Ultra: 248248NNemotron 3 UltraGLM-5.2 (max): 216216?GLM-5.2 (max)Qwen3.7 Max: 206206QQwen3.7 MaxGemini 3.5 Flash: 192192GGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.4 mini (xhigh): 179179AIGPT-5.4 mini (xhigh)GPT-5.4 (xhigh): 168168AIGPT-5.4 (xhigh)Grok 4.3 (high): 164164xGrok 4.3 (high)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 152152GGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3: 9595?MiniMax-M3

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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2026-07-08
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Independent test run by Artificial Analysis on dedicated hardware.

088175263350gpt-oss-120b (high): 316316AIgpt-oss-120b (high)Nemotron 3 Ultra: 248248NNemotron 3 UltraGLM-5.2 (max): 216216?GLM-5.2 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 192192GGemini 3.5 FlashGrok 4.3 (high): 164164xGrok 4.3 (high)MiniMax-M3: 9595?MiniMax-M3GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 8888AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Kimi K2.6: 7676KKimi K2.6DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 7272DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 7171AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…Claude Opus 4.5: 6060AClaude Opus 4.5

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, including reasoning model 'thinking' time · Lower is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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0s2.5s5s7.5s10sKimi K2.7 Code: 9.6s9.6sKKimi K2.7 CodeClaude Opus 4.7 (max): 8.9s8.9sAClaude Opus 4.7 (max)Claude Opus 4.5: 8.4s8.4sAClaude Opus 4.5Claude Opus 4.8 (max): 7.8s7.8sAClaude Opus 4.8 (max)DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 6.9s6.9sDDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)GPT-5.5 (medium): 6.9s6.9sAIGPT-5.5 (medium)Kimi K2.6: 6.6s6.6sKKimi K2.6GLM-5.1: 6.3s6.3s?GLM-5.1Grok Build 0.1 0616: 6.2s6.2sxGrok Build 0.1 0616GPT-5.5 (high): 6.2s6.2sAIGPT-5.5 (high)

Latency: Time To First Answer Token

Seconds to first answer token received · Accounts for reasoning model 'thinking' time · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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0s25s50s75s100sDeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 61s61sDDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Kimi K2.6: 58s58sKKimi K2.6GLM-5.1: 48s48s?GLM-5.1Kimi K2.7 Code: 43s43sKKimi K2.7 CodeGrok Build 0.1 0616: 25s25sxGrok Build 0.1 0616MiniMax-M3: 21s21s?MiniMax-M3Qwen3.7 Max: 12s12sQQwen3.7 MaxGLM-5.2 (max): 9.3s9.3s?GLM-5.2 (max)Nemotron 3 Ultra: 9.2s9.2sNNemotron 3 Ultragpt-oss-120b (high): 6.3s6.3sAIgpt-oss-120b (high)Claude Opus 4.5: 0s0sAClaude Opus 4.5

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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Independent test run by Artificial Analysis on dedicated hardware.

0500k1M1.5M2MGPT-5.4 (xhigh): 1.1M1.1MAIGPT-5.4 (xhigh)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 1M1MGGemini 3.5 FlashClaude Fable 5 (with fallback): 1M1MAClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GLM-5.2 (max): 1M1M?GLM-5.2 (max)DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 1M1MDDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Grok 4.3 (high): 1M1MxGrok 4.3 (high)MiniMax-M3: 1M1M?MiniMax-M3Claude Opus 4.8 (max): 1M1MAClaude Opus 4.8 (max)Claude Opus 4.7 (max): 1M1MAClaude Opus 4.7 (max)Claude Sonnet 5 (max): 1M1MAClaude Sonnet 5 (max)

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task, segmented by token type. Lower is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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00.51GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 0.10.1AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max): 0.10.1AClaude Sonnet 4.6 (max)GPT-5.5 (high): 0.10.1AIGPT-5.5 (high)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 0.10.1GGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5 (medium): 0.10.1AIGPT-5.5 (medium)GPT-5.4 (xhigh): 0.10.1AIGPT-5.4 (xhigh)GPT-5.5 (low): 00AIGPT-5.5 (low)GLM-5.1: 00?GLM-5.1Qwen3.7 Max: 00QQwen3.7 MaxGemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 00GGemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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$0.00$1.00$2.00$3.00$4.00$5.00Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): $2.75$2.75AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GPT-5.5 (xhigh): $0.86$0.86AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Gemini 3.5 Flash: $0.59$0.59GGemini 3.5 FlashGLM-5.2 (max): $0.37$0.37?GLM-5.2 (max)Kimi K2.6: $0.35$0.35KKimi K2.6Nemotron 3 Ultra: $0.24$0.24NNemotron 3 UltraGrok 4.3 (high): $0.14$0.14xGrok 4.3 (high)MiniMax-M3: $0.12$0.12?MiniMax-M3gpt-oss-120b (high): $0.06$0.06AIgpt-oss-120b (high)DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): $0.04$0.04DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost (USD) to run all evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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050100150Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max): 149149AClaude Sonnet 4.6 (max)GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 132132AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)GPT-5.5 (high): 119119AIGPT-5.5 (high)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 114114GGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5 (medium): 9999AIGPT-5.5 (medium)GPT-5.4 (xhigh): 8989AIGPT-5.4 (xhigh)GPT-5.5 (low): 6565AIGPT-5.5 (low)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 4949GGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3.7 Max: 4848QQwen3.7 MaxGLM-5.1: 4040?GLM-5.1

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Price (USD per M Tokens) · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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0250k500k750k1MClaude Opus 4.5: 3131AClaude Opus 4.5Claude Opus 4.8 (max): 3131AClaude Opus 4.8 (max)Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max): 1818AClaude Sonnet 4.6 (max)GPT-5.4 (xhigh): 1818AIGPT-5.4 (xhigh)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 1414GGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewClaude Sonnet 5 (max): 1212AClaude Sonnet 5 (max)Claude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning): 1212AClaude Sonnet 5 (Non-rea…Gemini 3.5 Flash: 1111GGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.7 Max: 1010QQwen3.7 MaxGLM-5.2 (max): 6.16.1?GLM-5.2 (max)cache Hitinputoutput

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average decode time (minutes) per task; excludes TTFT and overhead time · Lower is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

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02468Claude Opus 4.8 (max): 6.86.8AClaude Opus 4.8 (max)DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 6.76.7DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Claude Opus 4.7 (max): 5.95.9AClaude Opus 4.7 (max)GLM-5.1: 5.15.1?GLM-5.1Kimi K2.7 Code: 55KKimi K2.7 CodeClaude Fable 5 (with fallback): 4.84.8AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…MiniMax-M3: 44?MiniMax-M3Grok Build 0.1 0616: 3.83.8xGrok Build 0.1 0616GPT-5.4 (xhigh): 3.13.1AIGPT-5.4 (xhigh)GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 33AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)

Methodology

Methodology & Provenance

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Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning) was released on November 24, 2025.

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