Claude 3 Opus

Anthropic · Claude 3 · frontier · released Feb 29, 2024 · deprecated Sep 1, 2025 · claude-3-opus-20240229

Anthropic's former top model, now deprecated — use Claude Opus 4.6 for new projects.

Pricing

Input$15 / 1M
Output$75 / 1M

Deprecated — scheduled for sunset Sep 2025.

Cost bandPremium
Free tierAPI is paid.

Limits

Context window200k
Max output4,096
Knowledge cutoffAug 1, 2023
DeploymentClaude Platform, Bedrock, Vertex AI
OpenAI-compatible APINo
ModalitiesText, Image input

Where it fits

Best forLegacy projects only.
Business fitMigrate to Claude Opus 4.6 immediately.

Capabilities

Tool useVision

Benchmark scores

Composite72 / 100
Coding70 / 100 (HumanEval)
Reasoning75 / 100 (GPQA Diamond)
Long context72 / 100 (RULER 200K)
Vision65 / 100 (MMMU)
Instruction following74 / 100 (IFEval)

Editorial aggregate of published benchmark results as of Jun 1, 2024. These are not independent measurements run by this site.

Change history

No recorded changes for this model yet. Pricing and context are checked daily; changes appear here with dates and sources.

Data

Last checkedJan 10, 2026

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