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CLAUDE OPUS 5 VS CLAUDE HAIKU 4.5
Anthropic vs Anthropic, in USD per million tokens, verified daily against public list prices. Same jobs, both meters running.
Claude Opus 5 costs 5.0x more than Claude Haiku 4.5 for the same job — a 1,000-token prompt with a 3,000-token reply runs $0.08 vs $0.02. At 1,000 runs a day, that gap is $1,920.00 a month for identical traffic.
SIDE BY SIDE
| Claude Opus 5 → | Claude Haiku 4.5 → | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Input / MTok | $5.00 | $1.00 |
| Output / MTok | $25.00 | $5.00 |
| Output multiple | 5.0x | 5.0x |
| 1K prompt + 3K reply | $0.08 | $0.02 |
SAME JOB, BOTH BILLS
| Scenario | Claude Opus 5 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| A typical prompt | $0.02 | $0.0048 | 5.0x |
| A 20-turn conversation | $0.12 | $0.02 | 5.0x |
| Summarizing a 10-page document | $0.12 | $0.02 | 5.0x |
| One agent run | $0.31 | $0.06 | 5.0x |
| A code review request | $0.10 | $0.02 | 5.0x |
Output sizes use the same editorial ratios as the Burn Calculator. Estimates, not invoices — and price is not a benchmark: the cheaper model is only a bargain if it does the job.
SETTLE IT WITH YOUR OWN PROMPT
Paste a real prompt into the Burn Calculator and see what it costs on Claude Opus 5, Claude Haiku 4.5 and the other 14 models on the board — plus how much of it is waste either way.