Claude 3 Opus
Claude 3 Opus is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.
- 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 3 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.
Providers(3)
Compare all 3Compare API pricing across 3 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate API | $7.50 | $37.50 | - | Serverless |
| AWS Bedrock | $15.00 | $75.00 | read $1.50 | Serverless |
| GCP Vertex AI | $15.00 | $75.00 | - | Serverless |
Deprecated provider routes(1)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Deprecated | claude-3-opus-20240229 |
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
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