AWS Bedrock exposes Claude Opus 5.5 through model ID anthropic.claude-opus-5-5. 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
anthropic.claude-opus-5-5— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
pip install boto3AWS_ACCESS_KEY_IDanthropic.claude-opus-5-5Use 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="anthropic.claude-opus-5-5",
messages=[{
"role": "user",
"content": [{"text": "Hello"}]
}]
)
print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])Pricing on AWS Bedrock
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $4.00 |
| Output tokens | $20.00 |
Capabilities
About Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, first model in the Claude 5.5 family, released September 22, 2026. First-party positioning: long-running agentic coding and knowledge work; performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work; typical workloads about 40% less cost than Opus 5 at default settings (list input/output 20% below Opus 5; cache reads 60% below). Claude API id claude-opus-5-5. List price $4 per 1M input and $20 per 1M output; cache reads $0.20 per 1M tokens (0.05x base input); 5-minute cache writes $5; 1-hour cache writes $8; Batch API 50% off ($2/$10).