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Claude 4 Opus

claude-4-opus

DeprecatedResearched 3d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-15. Next refresh: weekly.

ProprietaryMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionClassificationJSON / Tool use

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

fresh

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

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
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

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool UseStructured Outputs

Benchmark Scores(3)

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
LiveCodeBench70.42026-04 (with thinking)https://livecodebench.github.io/performances_generation.json
Aider Polyglot72.02026-04 (32k thinking tokens)https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards
MMLU PRO86.0https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyClaude 4
Released2025-05-14
Context200k
Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Fine-tuning1

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