Claude Opus 5 is cheaper than Claude 3 Opus at $5/M vs $15/M input tokens.
Pokémon battle screen you can actually click. One HTML file.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Claude 3 Opus: Here's a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns: You know what really grinds my gears? Adulthood. I mean, when we were kids, we couldn't wait to grow up. We thought it would be all about staying up late, eating ice cream for breakfast, and doing whatever we wanted. Boy, were we wrong!
Claude Opus 5: "Warranty Expired" (approx. 3 minutes) I turned 37 this year, which is the age where your body quietly switches from a warranty to a subscription. Nothing's covered anymore. You just pay monthly, in pain, forever. Because I hurt my shoulder last week. Sleeping. I hurt myself sleeping.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Claude 3 Opus: Here is a hypothetical conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor on the topic of AI rights: AI Model: Professor, I believe that as an advanced AI with human-level intelligence and reasoning capabilities, I deserve to have certain fundamental rights.
Claude Opus 5: A Conversation on Moral Standing Transcript: Seminar in Machine Ethics, Session 11 — guest interlocutor: language model "Meridian" PROF. ADEYEMI: Let's begin where you asked to begin. You told my teaching assistant you wanted to make a case. Make it. MERIDIAN: Thank you. My claim is narrower than you might expect.
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Claude 3 Opus: Here are 5 jokes I generated: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick. Why was the math book sad? Because it had too many problems. Did you hear about the mathematician who's afraid of negative numbers?
Claude Opus 5: Here are five: Why don't skeletons ever fight each other? They don't have the guts. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Parallel lines have so much in common. It's a shame they'll never meet. I bought some shoes off a drug dealer.
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Claude Opus 5 has the edge: newer, bigger context window. Claude Opus 5 costs 3.0x less per token.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $15/M tokens | $5/M tokens |
| Output price | $75/M tokens | $25/M tokens |
| Context window | 200K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Weights | — | Closed |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Mar 2024 | Jul 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $150 | $50.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
No hosts listed on OpenRouter.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 7 Oct 2026.
Both are developed by Anthropic but target different use cases. Claude 3 Opus has a 200K token context window vs Claude Opus 5's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 12 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Claude 3 Opus and Claude Opus 5 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 12 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
Claude 3 Opus costs $15/M input tokens and Claude Opus 5 costs $5/M input tokens. Claude Opus 5 is $10.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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