Model pricing
Claude Opus 5 pricing — cost per million tokens
Claude Opus 5 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens (USD). It uses the newer tokenizer, which emits ~30% more tokens for the same text.
| Token rate | USD / 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Effortqualitative reasoning depth | High |
| Inputper 1M tokens | $5.00 |
| Output | $25.00 |
| Cache write · 5-minute1.25× input | $6.25 |
| Cache write · 1-hour2× input | $10.00 |
| Cache read0.1× input | $0.50 |
Claude Code computes your real per-token cost from local session logs at these rates — no estimate, no upload.
Cache & context economics
Claude Opus 5 adds cache reads at $0.50 / 1M — about a tenth of input, cache writes at $6.25 (5-minute) or $10.00 (1-hour) / 1M.
Common questions
- How much does Claude Opus 5 cost per million tokens?
- $5.00 input and $25.00 output per million tokens (USD list price).
- What is the cache-read price for Claude Opus 5?
- $0.50 per million cached-read tokens — about a tenth of the input rate.
- How is cache writing priced for Claude Opus 5?
- A 5-minute cache write is $6.25 and a 1-hour write is $10.00 per million tokens — the split most trackers miss.
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