Author's Description
Claude 3 Opus is Anthropic's most powerful model for highly complex tasks. It boasts top-level performance, intelligence, fluency, and understanding. See the launch announcement and benchmark results [here](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family) #multimodal
Key Specifications
Supported Parameters
This model supports the following parameters:
Features
This model supports the following features:
Performance Summary
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus demonstrates a strong overall performance profile, particularly excelling in reliability and certain accuracy benchmarks. The model exhibits moderate speed performance, ranking in the 39th percentile, indicating it is not among the fastest but delivers responses within a reasonable timeframe. In terms of cost, Claude 3 Opus is positioned at a premium price point, ranking in the 4th percentile, suggesting it is one of the more expensive models available. A significant strength is its exceptional reliability, boasting a 98% success rate, meaning it consistently provides usable responses with minimal technical failures. Across benchmarks, Claude 3 Opus achieved perfect accuracy in Ethics, notably being the most accurate model at its price point and among models of similar speed. It also performed very well in General Knowledge (99.0% accuracy) and Email Classification (98.0% accuracy). The model showed strong instruction following capabilities (71.0% accuracy, 81st percentile), indicating proficiency in handling complex directives. While its Reasoning (62.0% accuracy) and Coding (82.0% accuracy) scores are respectable, they do not stand out as top-tier compared to its other performances. Its key strengths lie in its high accuracy for ethical considerations and general knowledge, coupled with outstanding reliability. The primary weakness is its premium pricing, which may limit accessibility for some use cases.
Model Pricing
Current Pricing
Feature | Price (per 1M tokens) |
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Prompt | $15 |
Completion | $75 |
Input Cache Read | $1.5 |
Input Cache Write | $18.8 |
Price History
Available Endpoints
Provider | Endpoint Name | Context Length | Pricing (Input) | Pricing (Output) |
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Anthropic
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Anthropic | anthropic/claude-3-opus | 200K | $15 / 1M tokens | $75 / 1M tokens |
Google
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Google | anthropic/claude-3-opus | 200K | $15 / 1M tokens | $75 / 1M tokens |
Benchmark Results
Benchmark | Category | Reasoning | Strategy | Free | Executions | Accuracy | Cost | Duration |
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Other Models by anthropic
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Released | Params | Context |
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Speed | Ability | Cost |
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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Sep 29, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1 | Aug 05, 2025 | — | 200K |
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★★ | ★★★★★ | +$$$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 | May 22, 2025 | — | 200K |
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★★ | ★★★★★ | +$$$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 | May 22, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Feb 24, 2025 | — | 200K |
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★★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku | Nov 03, 2024 | — | 200K |
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★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22) | Nov 03, 2024 | — | 200K |
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★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Oct 21, 2024 | ~400B | 200K |
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★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) | Jun 19, 2024 | ~400B | 200K |
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★★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku | Mar 12, 2024 | ~20B | 200K |
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★★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$ |
Anthropic: Claude 3 Sonnet Unavailable | Mar 04, 2024 | ~200B | 200K |
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★★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude v2 Unavailable | Nov 21, 2023 | 137B | 200K |
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★★ | ★★★★ | +$$$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude v2.1 Unavailable | Nov 21, 2023 | 137B | 200K |
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★★ | ★★★★ | +$$$$$ |
Anthropic: Claude v2.0 Unavailable | Jul 27, 2023 | 137B | 100K |
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★★★ | ★★★★ | +$$$$$ |