Model
Claude Opus 5.5 API pricing
Compare the published Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) list rate with corouter's outlet rate, and estimate a monthly token bill. Claude Opus 5.5 is the lower Opus list rate in this catalog, with a cheaper cache read than Opus 5 and a Code tag. Send claude-opus-5-5 when you want that ID specifically.
Where this model fits
- Opus work that should bill the lower Opus 5.5 list rate
- Coding sessions that need the Opus 5.5 ID and the 1M window
- Cache-heavy prompts that benefit from the lower cache-read rate
Estimates only. Actual billing depends on your real token counts, cache hit rate, and the prices in effect at request time.
From the blog
- OpenAI vs Anthropic API pricingBoth vendors publish per-million-token rates, but they price context, output, and caching differently enough that the cheaper choice depends entirely on your workload shape.Read the post
- How to reduce your LLM API costsMost advice about cutting inference spend is vague. This is the concrete version: where the money goes, which five levers move it, and how much each one is worth on a real monthly volume.Read the post