Claude 4 Opus
claude-4-opus
Last refreshed 2026-05-15. Next refresh: weekly.
Claude 4 Opus is a legacy integration reference; evaluate Claude Opus 4.7 before starting new work.
Decision context: Coding task fit, 1 tracked provider route, and research from 2026-05-15.
Use it for
- Teams maintaining an existing integration
- Workloads that can use a 200k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- New production launches
Cheapest output
$75.00
OpenRouter per 1M tokens
Provider routes
1
Tracked API hosts
Quality / dollar
Unknown
No output-token price in the ladder
Freshness
2026-05-15
Researched 3d ago
This API model is marked deprecated. Use Claude Opus 4.7 as the replacement candidate before sending new production traffic.
Top use-case fit
Coding
2 relevant benchmarks 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
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $15.00 | $75.00 | Serverless |
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
About
Anthropic Claude 4 Opus API snapshot (claude-opus-4-20250514), deprecated April 14, 2026 with Claude API retirement scheduled for June 15, 2026. Use Claude Opus 4.7 for current integrations.
Claude 4 Opus has a 200K-token context window.
Claude 4 Opus input tokens at $15/1M, output at $75/1M.
Capabilities
Benchmark Scores(3)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveCodeBench | 70.4 | 2026-04 (with thinking) | https://livecodebench.github.io/performances_generation.json |
| Aider Polyglot | 72.0 | 2026-04 (32k thinking tokens) | https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards |
| MMLU PRO | 86.0 | — | https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro |
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