AWS Bedrock exposes Claude 3 Opus through model ID claude-3-opus. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.
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Quick Start
- 1
- 2Use the AWS Bedrock SDK or REST API to call
claude-3-opus— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
Install
pip install boto3API key
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_IDModel ID
claude-3-opusUse Amazon Bedrock model IDs, e.g. "anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0" for on-demand, or cross-region inference profile IDs like "us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-7-20251101-v1:0". These differ from the public model slug.
import boto3
# Reads AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION from env
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
response = client.converse(
modelId="claude-3-opus",
messages=[{
"role": "user",
"content": [{"text": "Hello"}]
}]
)
print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])Pricing on AWS Bedrock
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $15.00 |
| Output tokens | $75.00 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalReasoningStructured OutputsCode Execution
About Claude 3 Opus
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.
Model Specs
Released2024-03-04
Parameters2T
Context200k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2023-08