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Claude Opus 4.1 vs Claude Opus 4.5

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.1 wins:

  • No clear advantages in compared metrics

Claude Opus 4.5 wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
Price Advantage
Claude Opus 4.5
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.5
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.5
Speed
Claude Opus 4.5

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.1Claude Opus 4.5
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.1Claude Opus 4.5
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicAnthropic
ReleasedAug 2025Nov 2025

Claude Opus 4.1 Modalities

Input
imagetextfile
Output
text

Claude Opus 4.5 Modalities

Input
fileimagetext
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

Claude Opus 4.5 has cheaper input pricing at $5.00/M tokens. Claude Opus 4.5 has cheaper output pricing at $25.00/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.1 has a 200,000 token context window, while Claude Opus 4.5 has a 200,000 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.1 supports vision. Claude Opus 4.5 supports vision.