Claude Opus the listed price sits at the top of Anthropic's Opus family and is positioned as a frontier system for software engineering, agentic workflows, and computer use. According to the official launch announcement, it is described as state-of-the-art on SWE-bench Verified and as the best frontier model for coding, agents, and computer use at release, with notable improvements on everyday tasks such as deep research and working with slides and spreadsheets. The API identifier claude-opus-4-5-20251101 is the handle developers use to access it through the Claude API, and the model is offered through Anthropic's own apps and the three major cloud platforms.
Beyond raw benchmark leadership, Claude Opus the listed price is designed to be efficient enough to widen access to Opus-class capabilities, with launch pricing reported at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. It supports an extended thinking mode together with a new effort parameter that lets callers trade depth against latency, and it operates within a large context window with a high maximum output budget for long, multi-step tasks. Practically, it fits teams that need a top-tier model for autonomous coding agents, long-running research and analysis, and document-heavy knowledge work where vision input and structured tool use matter more than raw throughput.
