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Claude Opus 4

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 (snapshot 2025-05-14, deprecated). Original Claude 4 generation Opus model. Anthropic has announced retirement of this snapshot; new workloads should target Claude Opus 4.7.

Anthropic (identification mark)

Provider

Anthropic
VerifiedDeprecated· retires 2026-06-15
Snapshot date
2025-05-14src
Context window
200,000 tokenssrc
Max output
32,000 tokenssrc
Modality
text-in, text-outsrc

Data freshness: last checked 9 d ago · updated 2026-05-20

Verification

8 of 10 tracked fields verified against a primary source.

VerifiedDeprecated· retires 2026-06-15
  • API identifiersverified
  • Release / snapshot datenot yet verified
  • Context windowverified
  • Max output tokensverified
  • Modalityverified
  • Knowledge cutoffverified
  • Featuresverified
  • Lifecycleverified
  • Pricingverified
  • Benchmarksnot yet verified

Data freshness: last checked 9 d ago · updated 2026-05-20

Verification checklist

9 of 10 tracked fields verified against a primary source

Each row reflects the actual state on the record — no checkmark is asserted without isVerified() returning true.

  • API identifiers (canonical / alias)

    Verified
  • Context window

    Verified
  • Max output tokens

    Verified
  • Modality channels

    Verified
  • Knowledge cutoff

    Verified
  • Features (extended thinking / tool use / vision …)

    Verified
  • Lifecycle (active / deprecated / retired)

    Verified
  • Release date

    Missing
  • Snapshot date

    Verified
  • Pricing rows

    7 pricing rows sourced

    Verified

Data gaps

Fields not yet verified

These fields are intentionally null until verified against a primary source. They are not estimated.

  • Benchmark scores

    No third-party benchmark scores have been verified for any model on this site — see the benchmark-limitations guide for why.

  • Infrastructure (regions / latency / uptime)

    Infrastructure fields are intentionally null until a durable measurement source is wired. See the inference-infrastructure guide.

How a value moves from this list to a verified row — see source verification methodology.

Reference

API identifiers

Pinned snapshot IDs as listed by the provider.

Canonical
claude-opus-4-20250514
Alias
claude-opus-4-0
AWS Bedrock
anthropic.claude-opus-4-20250514-v1:0
Vertex AI
claude-opus-4@20250514

API pricing

First-party API pricing references

Per-unit rates published by Anthropic for its own first-party API. Each row is a source-backed reference, not a live quote. Where Anthropic does not run a paid first-party API for this model, the table renders the unverified-data label and any hosted-provider rates appear below.

Pricing is volatile and may change after retrieval. Treat prices as source-backed references, not live quotes.

Claude Opus 4 first-party pricing references
UnitPrice (USD)
1M input tokens$15.00src
1M output tokens$75.00src
1M cache write tokens (5m)$18.75src
1M cache write tokens (1h)$30.00src
1M cache read tokens$1.50src
1M batch input tokens$7.50src
1M batch output tokens$37.50src

Capability

Benchmarks

Benchmark scores are only published once verified against a primary source. WebmasterID Models does not republish provider-reported scores without an independent reference.

Data not yet verified.

Infrastructure

Inference infrastructure

Regions, latency, and uptime where independently verified.

Regions

Data not yet verified.

Avg latency (ms)

Data not yet verified.

Uptime (%)

Data not yet verified.

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Documentation example

Calling Claude Opus 4 via the Anthropic Messages API

Shape of a minimal Messages API request using the verified canonical model ID. See the source for the full request schema, headers, streaming, and tool-use details.

curl

curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages \
  -H "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" \
  -H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "claude-opus-4-20250514",
    "max_tokens": 1024,
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Hello, Claude Opus 4." }
    ]
  }'

TypeScript (@anthropic-ai/sdk)

import Anthropic from "@anthropic-ai/sdk";

const client = new Anthropic();

const response = await client.messages.create({
  model: "claude-opus-4-20250514",
  max_tokens: 1024,
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello, Claude Opus 4." }],
});

Shown for reference — not a performance recommendation. Refer to the provider's documentation for current request shape, headers, and limits.

Sources

  • Official docsRetrieved 2026-05-20Fresh
    Anthropic — Models overview

    Anthropic's models overview page (legacy section), including the Claude Opus 4 row.

  • Official pricingRetrieved 2026-05-20Fresh
    Anthropic — Pricing

    Anthropic's pricing reference (model pricing, prompt caching multipliers, batch API pricing).

Verification queue

Next review for this entity targets re-checking pricing against official provider documentation and confirming lifecycle state. Cadence per field type lives in /docs.