Claude 3 Opus: Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis
Analysis of Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more. Click on any model to compare API providers for that model. For more details including relating to our methodology, see our FAQs.
Anthropic has launched a newer model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet (June). We suggest considering this model instead of Claude 3 Opus. See the following pages for a comparison of Claude 3.5 Sonnet (June) to other models and Claude 3.5 Sonnet (June) API provider benchmarks.
Comparison Summary
Intelligence:
Claude 3 Opus is of lower quality compared to average, with a MMLU score of 0.696 and a Intelligence Index across evaluations of 35.
Price:Claude 3 Opus is more expensive compared to average with a price of $30.00 per 1M Tokens (blended 3:1).
Claude 3 Opus Input token price: $15.00, Output token price: $75.00 per 1M Tokens.
Speed:Claude 3 Opus Input token price: $15.00, Output token price: $75.00 per 1M Tokens.
Claude 3 Opus is slower compared to average, with a output speed of 27.5 tokens per second.
Latency:Claude 3 Opus has a lower latency compared to average, taking 1.02s to receive the first token (TTFT).
Context Window:Claude 3 Opus has a smaller context windows than average, with a context window of 200k tokens.
Highlights
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; Higher is better
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Speed
Output Tokens per Second; Higher is better
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Price
USD per 1M Tokens; Lower is better
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Claude 3 Opus Model Details
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