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Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-6 Astra API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Claude Opus 5 costs $0.0175 per request and GPT-6 Astra costs $0.035, so Claude Opus 5 is about 2× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Opus 5 ranks #7 and GPT-6 Astra ranks #2.

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 5GPT-6 Astra
Input$5$10
Output$25$50
Cached input$0.5$1
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Release date2026-07-242026-09-03
Overall rank#7#2
Coding rank#6#2
Reasoning rank#9#2
Knowledge rank#15#2
Professional work rank#6#8
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Opus 5GPT-6 AstraDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.0175$17.5 per 1,000$0.035$35 per 1,000Claude Opus 5 is 2× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.55$550 per 1,000$1.1$1,100 per 1,000Claude Opus 5 is 2× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$3.75$3,750 per 1,000$7.5$7,500 per 1,000Claude Opus 5 is 2× cheaper

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