Roundup
Best AI Models for Coding
Which frontier models actually hold up in multi-file refactors, agentic tooling and test-driven work, and what they cost per million tokens.
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5
anthropic/claude-opus-5
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis...
Listed (24 Jul 2026)
Source: OpenRouter (live)
- Input
- $5.00
- USD per 1M tokens
- Output
- $25.00
- USD per 1M tokens
- Blended
- $10.00
- 75% in / 25% out
- Context
- 1.0M
- tokens
- Max output
- 128K
- tokens
- Modality
- text+image+file->text
Prices as listed on OpenRouter, refreshed every five minutes. Provider-direct prices may differ. Convert to your currency on the AI Tracker.
Capabilities
Declared on the listing
- Tool / function calling Declared
- Reasoning controls Declared
- Structured output Declared
- InputText, Image, File
- OutputText
Capabilities are read from the provider listing. “Not declared” means the listing does not advertise the feature, not that it is absent.
Why it costs this
Pricing context
- 12× median
- Market median blended price is $0.806/M across 417 priced models.
Benchmarks
Where we rate it
- Coding — Real-world software tasks: multi-file edits, bug fixing and agentic tool use.Verify on SWE-bench , LiveCodeBench , Aider Polyglot
- Reasoning — Maths, logic and multi-step problem solving.Verify on GPQA Diamond , ARC-AGI , Humanity's Last Exam
- Agent Workflows — Long-horizon tool use, planning and recovering from errors.Verify on tau-bench , Terminal-Bench
Editorial picks, not scores. We link the public leaderboards we watch rather than inventing an AI HQ rating.
Alternatives
More from Anthropic
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)
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$10.00
/M blended
Anthropic
$20.00
/M blended
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)
Anthropic
$5.00
/M blended
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
Anthropic
$2.00
/M blended
Anthropic
$4.00
/M blended
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 (batch)
Anthropic
$10.00
/M blended
Alternatives
Similar price, other providers
$10.00
/M blended
$10.00
/M blended
~Anthropic
$10.00
/M blended
OpenAI
$10.00
/M blended
OpenAI
$9.75
/M blended
Sakana
$11.25
/M blended
Within ±50% of $10.00/M blended.
Analysis
Related reading
Comparison
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