LLM Reference

Claude 3 Opus

Released
2024-03-04
Last refreshed
2026-05-11
Status
Researched 46d ago
DeprecatedMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionClassificationJSON / Tool use

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
Specifications
Family
Claude 3
Released
2024-03-04
Context
200k
Parameters
2T
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2023-08
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Developing safe and ethical AI systems.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2021
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$37.50
Input / 1M
$7.50

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.

Claude 3 Opus is a model in the Claude 3 family. The structured metadata tracks a 200k-token context window, multimodal input, reasoning, structured outputs, and code execution. This page tracks provider routes through AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI, Anthropic, and 1 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $7.5 input and $37.5 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include HumanEval 84.9, Massive Multitask Language Understanding 88.7, and Chatbot Arena 1248.0.

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 4

Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MBatch in / outCacheRoute
Replicate API$7.50$37.50--
Serverless
Anthropic$15.00$75.00$7.50 / $37.50read $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

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningStructured OutputsCode Execution

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

Benchmark scores(5)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
HumanEval84.9pass@1https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/classic/latest/
Massive Multitask Language Understanding88.75-shothttps://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/classic/latest/
Chatbot Arena1248.0https://lmarena.ai
Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding59.4https://mmmu-benchmark.github.io/
MMLU PRO68.5https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

claude-3-opus-20240229

Rankings & picks(3)