Claude 3 Opus
Analysis Summary
Claude 3 Opus is an Anthropic model released in March 2024. Its intelligence index is 8.7, with MMLU-Pro at 0.696 and GPQA at 0.489, giving it relatively stronger general-language evidence than many older entries in this batch. The coding index is 19.5. Listed input and output prices are $15 and $75 per million tokens, respectively.
Those prices make it difficult to justify for routine content production, while the measured coding result offers little reason to select it for engineering workflows. The supplied data does not specify tool use, context length, or modality, so it cannot be recommended here for agentic or long-document work. It may serve as a historical reference or a narrow content-quality comparison, but a newer, better-priced model is the more practical choice for current client workloads.
Assessed September 23, 2026
Editorial notes
Claude 3 Opus has stronger broad-language benchmark results than many early models here, but its low coding index, high listed prices, and older release limit its current business appeal.
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DFO Verdict
Claude 3 Opus has stronger broad-language benchmark results than many early models here, but its low coding index, high listed prices, and older release limit its current business appeal.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 5, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 2, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control. Bars: magenta = reasoning, ink = coding and agents, cyan = instructions and long context.
How Claude 3 Opus compares
Claude 3 Opus ranks #249 of 433 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #140 of 198 for coding. At $15.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 2% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $15.00 | $0.015000 |
| Output | $75.00 | $0.075000 |
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Talk to our teamFrequently asked questions about Claude 3 Opus
How much does Claude 3 Opus cost?
Claude 3 Opus costs $15.00 per million input tokens and $75.00 per million output tokens.
Is Claude 3 Opus good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Claude 3 Opus ranks #140 of 198 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
Who created Claude 3 Opus?
Claude 3 Opus is developed by Anthropic and was released on March 4, 2024.