Is Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 or Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 cheaper?

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 is cheaper on output tokens ($25.00 vs $75.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 or Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5?

Both models offer a similar context window.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 is cheaper on output tokens. Choose Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 or Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
Provider	Helicone	Helicone
Input / 1M tokens	$15.00	$5.00
Output / 1M tokens	$75.00	$25.00
Context window	200K	200K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	May 2025	Nov 2025

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