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Claude Opus 5.5 compared

How Claude Opus 5.5 stacks up against other models on price, limits and the inputs it accepts. Pick a matchup for the full side-by-side, a monthly cost calculator and our verdict.

Prices checked 15 October 2026 from the OpenRouter API.

Claude Opus 5.5 at a glance

Input / 1M tokens
$4.00
Output / 1M tokens
$20.00
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Longest reply
128,000 tokens
Accepts
file, image, text
Providers on OpenRouter
5
Best provider uptime, 24 h
100%
Official website

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vs Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Claude Opus 5.5

Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 are Anthropic's mid-range and top-tier models. They accept the same inputs and read the same amount of text. The big difference is price: Opus costs exactly twice as much.

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vs GPT-6 Astra

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra

Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra are the premium models from Anthropic and OpenAI, aimed at hard coding, research and agent tasks. Astra costs about 2.5 times more than Opus.

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vs GPT-6.1 Sol

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol

Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's top model. GPT-6.1 Sol is OpenAI's mid-priced all-rounder at half the price. Both handle documents, images, code and tool calls.

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vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

Claude Opus 5.5 is a premium model for demanding text and coding work. Gemini 3.8 Flash is a much cheaper model that also accepts audio and video. They suit very different jobs.

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vs Claude Haiku 5.5

Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Claude Opus 5.5

Haiku 5.5 and Opus 5.5 sit at opposite ends of Anthropic's range. Sorting thousands of support emails and fixing a tricky bug are very different jobs, and these two models are priced for those different jobs.

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vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Claude Opus 5.5 is a premium model, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is one of the cheapest capable models available. The price gap is enormous, so the real question is how much checking and correcting each one needs.

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