Anthropic prices Claude Opus 4.5 at $5/1M input and $25/1M output tokens, much cheaper than Opus 4.1 at $15/$75 but still pricier than GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro
Opus 4.5 was responsible for most of the work across 20 commits, 39 files changed, 2,022 additions and 1,173 deletions in a two day period. … Forums: r/BetterOffline : Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult
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- “I had access to a preview of Anthropic's new model over the weekend. I spent a bunch of time with it in Claude Code, resulting in a new alpha release of sqlite-utils that included several large-scale refactorings—Opus 4.5 was responsible for most of the work across 20 commits, 39 files changed, 2,022 additions and 1,173 deletions in a two day period. … @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Discussion
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@jerhadf
Jeremy
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one fact people won't realize immediately about opus 4.5: it's remarkably token-efficient. all-in it's often *cheaper* than sonnet 4.5 and other models for cost-per-task-success. glad sourcegraph is seeing this early in Amp! we find that opus 4.5 with medium effort is pareto [ima…
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@zephyr_z9
@zephyr_z9
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So how did they achieve this I doubt they cut margins Is it something like DSA or is it fp4 finesse?? @teortaxesTex
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@teortaxestex
@teortaxestex
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> cache hits 0.5$ ok Anthropic is NOT dead
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@johnonolan
John O'Nolan
on x
goodbye Gemini3 - I enjoyed our weekend together
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@mattshumer_
Matt Shumer
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We need a new way to express AI costs... $/token doesn't make much sense anymore. Maybe a benchmark that tries to give a sense of the cost to run an average workload?
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@theo
@theo
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Anthropic lowered the price on Opus 4.5? They might have actually cooked here
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@sqs
Quinn Slack
on x
Opus is worth it, and maybe cheaper all-in than Sonnet? Early rough non-representative numbers, for our own internal @AmpCode usage (avg cost $ per thread): - Sonnet 4.5: $1.83 - Opus 4.5: $1.30 (earlier checkpoint last week was $1.55) - Gemini 3 Pro: $1.21
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@thezvi
Zvi Mowshowitz
on x
They're burying a lot here. There's a 66% price cut from Opus 4.1 to $5/$25, it uses fewer tokens to solve problems, upgrades to Claude Code in the app, no more length limits on conversations, no more Opus-specific plan caps...
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@alexalbert__
Alex Albert
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It's also dramatically more efficient. On SWE-bench Verified at medium effort, Opus 4.5 beats Sonnet 4.5 while using 76% fewer output tokens. The new effort parameter lets you trade off intelligence for cost/latency with a single dial. [image]
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@scaling01
@scaling01
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CLAUDE 4.5 OPUS PRICING $5 / $25 THEY DID IT [image]
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@simonw
Simon Willison
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Updated my post with this section about their improved protection against prompt injection attacks - definitely better, but the problem is that if an attacker gets 10 tries they'll still succeed 1/3rd of the time! https://simonwillison.net/... [image]
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@jeffwsurf
Jeff Wang
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Opus models have always been “the real SOTA” but have been cost prohibitive in the past. Claude Opus 4.5 is now at a price point where it can be your go-to model for most tasks. It's the clear winner and exhibits the best frontier task planning and tool calling we've seen yet.
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r/BetterOffline
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Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult