Claude 3 Opus
Analysis Summary
Claude 3 Opus is Anthropic's 2024 high-end model, with its clearest strength in language quality, nuanced analysis, and long-form writing. Its general reasoning and coding measurements are limited against current models, although the content profile remains useful for careful drafting and interpretation. The supplied data does not document context capacity, tool use, function calling, speed, or modality.
It can support editorial development, brand voice work, document summarisation, and research assistance when human review is available. Premium input and output pricing make routine traffic difficult to justify, while newer generations provide stronger technical and agentic options. Use it for inherited content workflows that value its writing style, but select a current model for new client systems and automated coding.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
Claude 3 Opus remains capable at nuanced writing and general analysis, but high pricing, limited coding results, and its older generation make it a poor default for new workflows.
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DFO Verdict
Claude 3 Opus remains capable at nuanced writing and general analysis, but high pricing, limited coding results, and its older generation make it a poor default for new workflows.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
11.8 Intelligence Index·19.5 Coding Index
How Claude 3 Opus compares
Claude 3 Opus ranks #252 of 427 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #147 of 200 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.
Strongest on content. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $15.00 | $0.015000 |
| Output | $75.00 | $0.075000 |
What would Claude 3 Opus cost your business?
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.
We route routine calls to cheap models and save Claude 3 Opus for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.
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 #147 of 200 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.