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
- Training
- finetuned
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 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 |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(5)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| HumanEval | 84.9 | pass@1 | https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/classic/latest/ |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 88.7 | 5-shot | https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/classic/latest/ |
| Chatbot Arena | 1248.0 | — | https://lmarena.ai |
| Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding | 59.4 | — | https://mmmu-benchmark.github.io/ |
| MMLU PRO | 68.5 | — | https://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