Claude 3 Opus
· verified October 14, 2026
legacy paid api writing
Provider
Statuslegacy
AA Intelligence Index~6.6 (not a current official measurement)
Releasedn/a
Context windown/a
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API price $/1M (in / out)n/a
Speedn/a
AccessAPI (legacy)
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The 2024 model that first made Claude famous for prose quality. Retired from frontier duty.
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