Best cost/speed trade-off
Azure
azure/us-east-2$11.6667 / 1M tokens
9.55 s estimated response
Claude Opus 5 provider comparison
anthropic/claude-opus-5
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis...
- Endpoints:
- 6
- Context:
- 1M
- Input:
- text, image, file
- Output:
- text
At a glance
Comparison winners
Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens using the latest published median speed data.
Cheapest
Amazon Bedrock
amazon-bedrock/claude-on-aws$11.6667 / 1M tokens
$0.0175 for the sample request
Fastest
Azure
azure/us-east-29.55 s estimated response
$11.6667 / 1M tokens
Visual comparison
Price and performance charts
Compare published endpoint pricing and estimated response time visually.
USD per 1 million tokens for input and output. Lower is better.
Amazon Bedrock has the lowest estimated cost for 1,000 input and 500 output tokens at $0.0175.
Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens. Cost is shown in USD per 1 million tokens. Lower and further left is better; the single best cost/speed trade-off appears at full opacity.
5 providers have complete pricing and speed data. Azure is closest to the ideal combination of lowest cost and fastest response.
Server-rendered comparison
Provider endpoints
Prompt and completion prices are effective USD per token as published by OpenRouter. Missing speed data never removes an endpoint.
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10 parametersinclude_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity |
Provider / route | Pricing
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10 parametersinclude_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity |
| Provider / route | Pricing
| Benchmarks
| API support
12 parametersinclude_reasoning, max_completion_tokens, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, verbosity |
| Provider / route | Pricing
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10 parametersinclude_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity |
Provider / route | Pricing
| Benchmarks
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9 parametersinclude_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, tool_choice, tools, verbosity |
| Provider / route | Pricing
| Benchmarks
| API support
9 parametersinclude_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, tool_choice, tools, verbosity |
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Claude Opus 5 deployment guide
How to choose a Claude Opus 5 inference provider
Claude Opus 5 is indexed here as a text model by anthropic, with 6 provider endpoints from Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Azure, Google Vertex. The comparison preserves each exact OpenRouter routing tag so pricing and performance observations can be connected to the route an application would actually request.
Match the endpoint to the workload
The model publishes a 1M-token context window. It accepts text, image, file input and returns text output. 12 distinct supported parameters appear across the listed routes. Confirm limits on the specific endpoint rather than assuming every host exposes the same configuration.
Compare the real request economics
Amazon Bedrock currently has the lowest estimated cost for the standard 1,000-input/500-output-token sample at $0.0175. Input-heavy and output-heavy applications can produce a different result, so review both per-million-token prices in the endpoint table.
Balance response start and generation speed
Azure currently has the shortest estimated 500-token response at 9.55 seconds. Azure is the single endpoint closest to the current ideal cost/speed combination. Recent observations can change, so validate finalists with your own prompts.