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Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic's top model — class-leading on agentic coding and long-horizon reasoning.
At a glance
| Provider | Anthropic |
|---|---|
| Released | 2025-08 |
| Tier | frontier |
| License | Closed / proprietary |
| Modalities | text, image |
| Context window | 200k tokens |
| Max output | 32k tokens |
| API price · input | $15.00 / 1M tokens |
| API price · output | $75.00 / 1M tokens |
Benchmark performance
How Claude Opus 4.1 stacks up against the current leader (GPT-5) and the median model in the leaderboard:
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | GPT-5 | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatbot Arena Elo | 1390 | 1410 | 1320 |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.0 | 86.8 | 78.0 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.6 | 87.3 | 65.0 |
| MATH | 95.0 | 96.7 | 78.3 |
| HumanEval | 95.4 | 95.1 | 92.0 |
| SWE-Bench Verified | 74.5 | 74.9 | 49.0 |
Numbers compiled from provider technical reports and Chatbot Arena. See methodology for the composite-score formula.
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What does Claude Opus 4.1 cost in practice?
API pricing is $15.00 per 1M input tokens and $75.00 per 1M output tokens. Assuming a 50/50 input/output split, here is what that looks like at three workload sizes:
| Volume | Per day | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M tokens/day | $45.00 | $1,350 | $16,425 |
| 10M tokens/day | $450.00 | $13,500 | $164,250 |
| 100M tokens/day | $4,500 | $135,000 | $1,642,500 |
Strengths & weaknesses
Where it shines
- HumanEval: 95.4 (rank #1 of 30, top tier)
- MMLU-Pro: 87.0 (rank #1 of 29, top tier)
- Arena: 1390 (rank #3 of 27, top tier)
Where it lags
No clear weaknesses across published benchmarks.
Best alternatives
The closest models to Claude Opus 4.1 by tier and benchmark score:
| Model | Score | $ in / out | Context | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 4 xAI |
83.6 | $3.00 / $15.00 | 256k | Try → · vs Claude |
| o3 OpenAI |
83.7 | $2.00 / $8.00 | 200k | Try → · vs Claude |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
86.0 | $1.25 / $10.00 | 400k | Try → · vs Claude |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro |
80.9 | $1.25 / $10.00 | 2M | Try → · vs Claude |
| o1 OpenAI |
75.7 | $15.00 / $60.00 | 200k | Try → · vs Claude |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.1 a good model?
Claude Opus 4.1 scores 83.6 on the llmrank.top composite (rank #4 of 30). It is in the top tier (the leader, GPT-5, scores 86.0). Whether it's the right fit depends on your workload — see the use-case discussion on this page.
How much does Claude Opus 4.1 cost?
Claude Opus 4.1 is priced at $15.00 per 1M input tokens and $75.00 per 1M output tokens (USD). For a 10M-token-per-day workload split 50/50, that works out to roughly $450.00/day or $164,250/year.
What is Claude Opus 4.1's context window?
200k tokens. That covers most multi-document workloads.
Is Claude Opus 4.1 open source?
No — it is a closed (proprietary) model accessed only via the provider API.
What is Claude Opus 4.1's SWE-Bench score?
Claude Opus 4.1 scores 74.5% on SWE-Bench Verified — the benchmark that measures real-world GitHub issue resolution. Its Chatbot Arena Elo is 1390.
What are the best alternatives to Claude Opus 4.1?
Closest alternatives by tier and score: Grok 4, o3, GPT-5. See the alternatives section on this page for side-by-side numbers.
Related: Grok 4 · o3 · GPT-5 · Full leaderboard
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Try Claude Opus 4.1 now
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