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Fastest First-Token Claude Opus 5 (Fast) Inference Providers

Ranks providers by how quickly the first generated token appears. Providers without enough recent data remain visible after ranked rows.

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

Fastest first token endpoint ranking

Fastest First-Token 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

Endpoint data fetched .

Claude Opus 5 (Fast) endpoint guide

How to interpret the Fastest First-Token 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 2.40 s via anthropic. The table keeps unranked routes visible so missing measurements do not look like missing provider availability.

How response-start time is ranked

The first-token ranking orders endpoints by the recent median time before output begins. This is useful for interactive applications, but it should be read alongside throughput because the first provider to start is not always the first to finish a long answer.

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.