Opus 5.5 API Pricing
Opus 5.5 costs $4.00 per 1M input tokens and $20.00 per 1M output tokens on Anthropic's API. Prices are provider list prices in USD, refreshed as sources update; see the Opus 5.5 model profile for capability scores.
Price List
| Rate | Price (USD) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $4.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $20.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended input + output | $24.00 | 1M in + 1M out at list price |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
What a Workload Costs
Computed straight from the list prices above — token counts are illustrative workload sizes, not measurements of Opus 5.5.
| Workload | Cost | Tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | $0.014 | 1K in / 500 out |
| Summarize a long document | $0.440 | 100K in / 2K out |
| Agentic coding session | $4.00 | 500K in / 100K out |
| 1M input + 1M output tokens | $24.00 | 1M in / 1M out |
Effective Cost
In AI IQ's scoring, Opus 5.5's list price is adjusted by a token-usage multiplier of 0.857 (measured from real benchmark runs), giving an effective cost of $20.57 per 1M input + output tokens. That places it #109 of 131 models on the effective-cost ranking (lower is cheaper). Some models spend far more tokens than others on the same task, so effective cost compares what a unit of work really costs. Method details are on the methodology page; see all models on the cost charts and the falling cost of intelligence over time.
Cheaper Alternatives at Similar Capability
Models with a lower effective cost that score within a few IQ points of Opus 5.5 (IQ 137), or better.
| Model | Provider | IQ | Effective Cost / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-6-sol | OpenAI | 136 | $9.08 |