Claude Opus 5.5 API pricing
Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. A typical chatbot request (about 1,500 input + 400 output tokens) costs $0.02, or $16.58 per 1,000 requests.
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| Model | Per month |
|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5.5 |
≈ = estimated token count: only OpenAI publishes its tokenizer. Claude counts use Anthropic’s published ratios; use the count_tokens API for an exact number.
Claude Opus 5.5 price per million tokens
USD, Anthropic standard tier. Prices checked on October 28, 2026.
| Token type | Price per 1M | With Batch API |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $4 | $2 |
| Cached input | $0.2 | $0.1 |
| Cache write (5 min) | $5 | $2.5 |
| Output | $20 | $10 |
Model ID: claude-opus-5-5 · Source: platform.claude.com
What a Claude Opus 5.5 request costs
| Request | Per request | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Short chat reply 500 input + 200 output tokens | $0.0069 | $6.86 |
| Chatbot turn with context 1,500 input + 400 output tokens | $0.02 | $16.58 |
| Document Q&A (RAG) 8,000 input + 500 output tokens | $0.06 | $55.76 |
| Long-document summary 150,000 input + 2,000 output tokens | $0.90 | $898 |
Token counts are measured with GPT's o200k tokenizer and converted for Claude Opus 5.5 (see below). No caching or batch discount.
Similarly priced models
| Model | Chatbot request | vs Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic | $0.0083 | −50% |
| GPT-5.4 OpenAI | $0.0097 | −41% |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | $0.01 | −34% |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI | $0.01 | −16% |
| GPT-5.5 OpenAI | $0.02 | +18% |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic | $0.02 | +25% |
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Claude Opus 5.5 API cost?
Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens on Anthropic's standard tier. Prices checked on October 28, 2026.
How much does one Claude Opus 5.5 request cost?
A typical chatbot request with about 1,500 input and 400 output tokens costs about $0.02, or $16.58 per 1,000 requests. Paste your own prompt into the calculator on this page for an exact estimate.
Does Claude Opus 5.5 support prompt caching?
Yes. Cached input costs $0.2 per million tokens, 95% less than regular input. Writing to the cache (5-minute lifetime) costs $5 per million tokens.
Does Claude Opus 5.5 have a Batch API discount?
Yes: 50% off for requests sent through the Batch API, which may take up to 24 hours. That makes it $2 / $10 per million input / output tokens.
How are Claude Opus 5.5 tokens counted?
Claude Opus 5.5 uses Anthropic's newer tokenizer, which produces about 30% more tokens than earlier Claude models. We estimate about 1.43× the GPT o200k count for the same text.
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