Claude 3 Opus
Claude 3 Opus is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.
Use it for
- Teams maintaining an existing integration
- Workloads that can use a 200k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- New production launches
- Family
- Claude 3
- Released
- 2024-03-04
- Context
- 200k
- Parameters
- 2T
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-08
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 4 routes · Replicate API
About
Claude 3 Opus, part of the Claude 3 family by Anthropic, is a cutting-edge large language model (LLM) optimized for high-complexity tasks and exceptional performance. Deprecated January 5, 2026. Migrate to Claude 3.5, 3.7, or 4.x series.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 4Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Batch in / out | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate API | $7.50 | $37.50 | - | - | Serverless |
| Anthropic | $15.00 | $75.00 | $7.50 / $37.50 | read $1.50 / 5m $18.75 / 1h $30.00 | Serverless |
| AWS Bedrock | $15.00 | $75.00 | - | read $1.50 | Serverless |
| GCP Vertex AI | $15.00 | $75.00 | - | - | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(15)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing
RouterAWS Bedrock's native intelligent prompt router that routes prompts between Anthropic Claude model tiers (Haiku/Sonnet) based on predicted task complexity, with no extra per-routing charge.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(5)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HumanEval | 84.9 | pass@1Observed 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 88.7 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| Chatbot Arena | 1248.0 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
| Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding | 59.4 | —Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
| MMLU PRO | 68.5 | —Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
claude-3-opus-20240229Comparison and alternatives
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