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Claude 3 Opus

First-generation Claude 3 flagship; retired and replaced by Claude 4.

Creator: Anthropic
Lifecycle: Retired
Context: 200.0K
Max output: 4.1K
Released: Mar 4, 2024
Status: up

Input: $15.00 / 1M tokens
Output: $75.00 / 1M tokens
Cached read: $1.50 / 1M tokens
Cached write: — / 1M tokens
Batch discount: 50%
Source: Claude 3 Opus pricing
Verified: Apr 5, 2026 (High)

Capabilities

Modalities: textimage→text
Capabilities: imageInputbatchSupportpromptCachingfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs
Strengths: First Claude 3 frontier
Tradeoffs: Very expensive, retired January 2026

Official Links

Intro

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family

Docs

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models/all-models

Pricing

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/pricing

Release note

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations

Benchmark Coverage

Benchmark	Version	Score	Date	Source	Notes
MMLU	2024	86.8 %	Mar 1, 2024	Anthropic	5-shot, vendor model card
GPQA Diamond	2024	50.4 %	Mar 1, 2024	Anthropic	Vendor model card

Release History

Release	Alias	Lifecycle	Release Date	Deprecation	Shutdown	Summary
Claude 3 Opus	claude-3-opus	Retired	Mar 4, 2024	—	—	Current published model family snapshot.

Host Coverage

Host	Type	Context	Pricing Note	Differences
Anthropic API	first-party	200.0K	Retired.	—

Migration Guidance

Retired. Migrate to Claude Opus 4.6.

Replacement models: claude-opus-4-6

Change Events

Date	Type	Title	Description	Source
Mar 4, 2024	family_added	Claude 3 Opus published	Initial public model family launch.	Claude 3 Opus release notes

Other models from Anthropic

Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3.5 Haiku, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Opus 4, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4, Claude Sonnet 4.6