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Highest Output-Speed Claude Opus 5 Inference Providers

Ranks providers by their recent typical output speed in tokens per second. Providers without enough recent data remain visible after ranked rows.

Median input price:
$5 / 1M
Median output price:
$25 / 1M
Median cache price:
$0.5 / 1M

Highest output speed endpoint ranking

Highest Output-Speed Claude Opus 5 Inference Providers
RankProvider / routePricingBenchmarksAPI support
#1Provider / route
1M contextunknown128K max output
Pricing
Input
$5 / 1M
Output
$25 / 1M
Cache
$0.5 / 1M
Blended— Best comparable value
$11.6667 / 1M
Benchmarks
Speed— Best comparable value
9.55 s
TTFT— Best comparable value
2.15 s
TPS— Best comparable value
67.5 tok/s
Uptime
N/a
API support
  • Tool calling
  • Tool choice
  • Structured output
  • Parallel calls
#2Provider / route
1M contextunknown128K max output
Pricing
Input
$5 / 1M
Output
$25 / 1M
Cache
$0.5 / 1M
Blended— Best comparable value
$11.6667 / 1M
Benchmarks
Speed
11.35 s
TTFT— Worst comparable value
3.77 s
TPS
66.0 tok/s
Uptime— Best comparable value
100.00%
API support
  • Tool calling
  • Tool choice
  • Structured output
  • Parallel calls
#3Provider / route
1M contextunknown128K max output
Pricing
Input
$5 / 1M
Output
$25 / 1M
Cache
$0.5 / 1M
Blended— Best comparable value
$11.6667 / 1M
Benchmarks
Speed
10.97 s
TTFT
2.35 s
TPS
58.0 tok/s
Uptime— Worst comparable value
99.97%
API support
  • Tool calling
  • Tool choice
  • Structured output
  • Parallel calls
#4Provider / route
1M contextunknown128K max output
Pricing
Input
$5 / 1M
Output
$25 / 1M
Cache
$0.5 / 1M
Blended— Best comparable value
$11.6667 / 1M
Benchmarks
Speed
11.39 s
TTFT
2.30 s
TPS
55.0 tok/s
Uptime— Best comparable value
100.00%
API support
  • Tool calling
  • Tool choice
  • Structured output
  • Parallel calls
#5Provider / route
1M contextunknown128K max output
Pricing
Input
$5 / 1M
Output
$25 / 1M
Cache
$0.5 / 1M
Blended— Best comparable value
$11.6667 / 1M
Benchmarks
Speed— Worst comparable value
13.41 s
TTFT
3.60 s
TPS— Worst comparable value
51.0 tok/s
Uptime
99.99%
API support
  • Tool calling
  • Tool choice
  • Structured output
  • Parallel calls
Provider / route
1M contextunknown128K max output
Pricing
Input
$5.5 / 1M
Output
$27.5 / 1M
Cache
$0.55 / 1M
Blended— Worst comparable value
$12.8333 / 1M
Benchmarks
Speed
N/a
TTFT
N/a
TPS
N/a
Uptime
N/a
API support
  • Tool calling
  • Tool choice
  • Structured output
  • Parallel calls
Green value Best comparable resultRed value Worst comparable result

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Claude Opus 5 endpoint guide

How to interpret the Highest Output-Speed Claude Opus 5 Inference Providers

5 of 6 Claude Opus 5 endpoints currently have the published data required for this ranking. Azure leads at 67.5 tok/s via azure/us-east-2. The table keeps unranked routes visible so missing measurements do not look like missing provider availability.

How generation throughput is ranked

The output-speed ranking compares recent median generated tokens per second. It favors routes that complete long generations quickly, while first-token latency remains a separate measure of how responsive the endpoint feels at the beginning.

Compare Azure with the next option

Anthropic currently ranks second at 66.0 tok/s. Compare that gap with input and output price, response-start time, output speed, 30-minute uptime, context length, and the exact route before deciding whether first place is meaningful for your workload.

Use the route, not only the provider name

Claude Opus 5 has 6 published provider options, 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.