Claude 3 Opus
DeprecatedPrevious Anthropic flagship, now superseded by Claude Opus 4.
Overview
Claude 3 Opus was Anthropic's top model at launch of the Claude 3 generation in early 2024. Now deprecated in favor of the Claude 4 series.
History
Claude 3 Opus was released on 2024-03-04. This model is marked as deprecated and may be retired in the future.
Training & availability
Anthropic has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.
Capabilities
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Context window: 200K tokens.
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Max output: 4K tokens.
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Input modalities: text, image.
Recommended for: vision, agentic, long-context.
Limitations
- At $75.00/1M output tokens, this is in the premium tier — verify cost-per-value for high-volume workloads.
Pricing
- Input: $15.0000 per 1M tokens
- Output: $75.0000 per 1M tokens
Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.
Quick start
Minimal example using the anthropic API. Copy, paste, replace the key.
from anthropic import Anthropic
client = Anthropic(api_key="sk-ant-...")
resp = client.messages.create(
model="claude-3-opus",
max_tokens=1024,
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.content[0].text)Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.
Integrations & tooling support
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Structured outputs
- Not supported
Price vs quality
Priced like a frontier model. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.
- Quality percentile
- —
- Effective price
- $60/1M
- Pricing breakdown
- $15/1M in
$75/1M out
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