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Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5 API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $0.007 per request and Claude Opus 5 costs $0.0175, so Claude Sonnet 5.5 is about 2.5× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Opus 5 ranks #7 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 ranks #8.

Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.

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Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensClaude Opus 5Claude Sonnet 5.5
Input$5$2
Output$25$10
Cached input$0.5$0.1
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Release date2026-07-24—
Overall rank#7#8
Coding rank#6#12
Reasoning rank#9#6
Knowledge rank#15#30
Professional work rank#6#2
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Opus 5Claude Sonnet 5.5Difference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.0175$17.5 per 1,000$0.007$7 per 1,000Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 2.5× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.55$550 per 1,000$0.22$220 per 1,000Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 2.5× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$3.75$3,750 per 1,000$1.5$1,500 per 1,000Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 2.5× cheaper

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