Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5

anthropic/claude-opus-5.5

Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work, succeeding Claude Opus 5. It is particularly strong at multi-step changes in large codebases, code...

Modalities

In / out price

$4 / $20 per 1M

Context

Released

Sep 22, 2026

Why use Claude Opus 5.5

Understands images
Reads PDFs and other files
Step-by-step reasoning mode
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Structured (JSON) outputs
Very long context: whole books or codebases in one prompt

Pricing

Input	$4 / 1M tokens
Output	$20 / 1M tokens
Cached input (read)	$0.2 / 1M tokens
Cache write	$5 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

How it ranks

Intelligence index57.6

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5	$0.043	$43.20	$43.20

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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