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Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-6.1 Terra API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), GPT-6.1 Terra costs $0.0035 per request and Claude Opus 5 costs $0.0175, so GPT-6.1 Terra is about 5× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Opus 5 ranks #8 and GPT-6.1 Terra ranks #10.

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.

Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensClaude Opus 5GPT-6.1 Terra
Input$5$1
Output$25$5
Cached input$0.5$0.05
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Release date2026-07-242026-10-26
Overall rank#8#10
Coding rank#6—
Reasoning rank#9—
Knowledge rank#15#16
Professional work rank#7—
Verified2026-10-282026-10-28
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Opus 5GPT-6.1 TerraDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.0175$17.5 per 1,000$0.0035$3.5 per 1,000GPT-6.1 Terra is 5× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.55$550 per 1,000$0.11$110 per 1,000GPT-6.1 Terra is 5× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$3.75$3,750 per 1,000$0.75$750 per 1,000GPT-6.1 Terra is 5× cheaper

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