Anthropic · 1M context · updated 2026-10-02

How much does 1 million tokens cost on Claude Opus 5.5?

Input · what you send

$4

per 1M tokens

Output · what it writes

$20

per 1M tokens

What does $10 buy on Claude Opus 5.5?

$10 of output

500,000 tokens

  • ≈ 375,000 words written
  • ≈ 4.2 novels' worth of text
  • ≈ 50,000 lines of code generated

$10 of input

2,500,000 tokens

  • ≈ 3,748 pages read
  • ≈ 2,500 images analyzed
  • ≈ 208.3 hours of speech transcribed

For context: the cheapest model tracked here is GPT-6 Luna at $0.50/1M output tokens, and the most expensive is GPT-6 Astra at $50 — a 100× spread.Try your own budget in the calculator →

Compare with other models

ModelInput / 1MOutput / 1Mvs Claude Opus 5.5 (output)
GPT-6 Astra$10$502.5× pricier
Claude Fable 5.1$10$502.5× pricier
Claude Opus 5$5$251.3× pricier
GPT-6 Sol$2$102× cheaper
Gemini 3.1 Pro$2$121.7× cheaper
Claude Sonnet 5$2$102× cheaper
Claude Haiku 4.5$1$54× cheaper
Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.75$3.755.3× cheaper
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite$0.30$2.508× cheaper
GPT-6 Luna$0.10$0.5040× cheaper

Claude Opus 5.5 context window

Claude Opus 5.5 supports a 1M token context window. That means in a single API call, you can send up to 1M tokens of input — including your prompt, system instructions, and any documents or code you want the model to process.

In practical terms, 1M tokens is approximately:

Compare all models' context windows on the context windows page.