Claude Opus 5.5

Claude Opus 5.5 is served by 11 companies at prices ranging from $4.00 to $8.00 per million input tokens, a 2.0× difference for identical weights.

cheapest host · Amazon Bedrock
$4.00
price spread across hosts
2.0×
companies serving it
11
intelligence index
58.4

Is it worth it?

Nothing in the catalogue is both cheaper and at least as capable. Claude Opus 5.5 is on the efficiency frontier at $8.86 per thousand support replies.

Every host, compared

The same weights, priced and configured differently by 11 companies. Precision matters: 4-bit builds measurably degrade output and cost the same.

Host$/1M in$/1M outCachedContextPrecisionUptime
Amazon Bedrockcheapest$4.00$20.00$0.2001.00Munknown100%
Azure$4.00$20.00$0.2001.00Munknown100%
Google$4.00$20.00$0.2001.00Munknown100%
Claude Platform on AWS$4.00$20.00$0.2001.00Munknown100%
Anthropic$4.00$20.00$0.2001.00Munknown100%
Amazon Bedrock$4.40$22.00$0.2201.00Munknown100%
Amazon Bedrock$4.40$22.00$0.2201.00Munknown100%
Azure$4.40$22.00$0.2201.00Munknownn/a
Google$4.40$22.00$0.2201.00Munknown100%
Google$4.40$22.00$0.2201.00Munknown100%
Anthropic$8.00$40.00$0.4001.00Munknown100%

What it costs to run

Marketing emails
$9.46
per 1,000 · short brief in, one email out
Support replies
$8.86
per 1,000 · ticket plus help-centre context
Lead enrichment
$12.10
per 1,000 · company page in, fields out
Long-form drafts
$43.12
per 1,000 · outline in, full draft out
Questions on docs
$29.60
per 1,000 · one large document, many questions
Agent / tool loop
$30.05
per 1,000 · long context reused each step

Priced on the median host. Change the workload on the leaderboard to see how the ranking moves.

Specification

Context, most hosts
1.00M · 1,500 pages
Context range across hosts
1.00M to 1.00M
Max output
128K
Cache discount
96% off cached input
Input types
text, image, file
Tool use
supported
Reasoning
always on, billed as output
Arena Elo
1383 across 8 categories
Agentic Elo
1322
AA Intelligence
58.4

Other models with the same host spread

Host pricing and precision read live from OpenRouter’s endpoint API, compiled 2 November 2026. Free to quote with attribution. See all findings.