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Cheapest Claude Opus 5 (Fast) Inference Providers

Ranks providers by estimated cost using a 1,000-input/500-output token ratio, shown per 1 million total tokens.

Median input price:
$10 / 1M
Median output price:
$50 / 1M
Median cache price:
$1 / 1M

Cheapest endpoint ranking

Cheapest Claude Opus 5 (Fast) Inference Providers
RankProvider / routePricingBenchmarksAPI support
#1Provider / route
1M contextunknown128K max output
Pricing
Input
$10 / 1M
Output
$50 / 1M
Cache
$1 / 1M
Blended
$23.3333 / 1M
Benchmarks
Speed
7.26 s
TTFT
2.40 s
TPS
103.0 tok/s
Uptime
100.00%
API support
  • Tool calling
  • Tool choice
  • Structured output
  • Parallel calls

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Claude Opus 5 (Fast) endpoint guide

How to interpret the Cheapest Claude Opus 5 (Fast) Inference Providers

1 of 1 Claude Opus 5 (Fast) endpoint currently have the published data required for this ranking. Anthropic leads at $23.333333 / 1M via anthropic. The table keeps unranked routes visible so missing measurements do not look like missing provider availability.

How estimated token cost is ranked

The cheapest ranking uses a 1,000-input/500-output-token ratio and reports the blended result per 1 million total tokens. Because providers can price input and output differently, a workload with a different token ratio may produce a different order.

Compare Anthropic with the next option

Only 1 route currently qualifies, so the rank alone provides limited choice. Review every visible endpoint for price, speed, uptime, context length, and route-specific configuration.

Use the route, not only the provider name

Claude Opus 5 (Fast) has 1 published provider option, and performance data is matched to each exact OpenRouter routing tag. Different quantization, context, regional deployment, or provider configuration can change price and behavior even when the underlying model name is identical.