Claude 3 Opus API

Claude-3-Opus - advanced AI for text and image processing, enhanced multilingual support.
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Overview

Claude-3-Opus Description

Basic Information

Model Name: Claude-3-Opus

Developer/Creator: Anthropic

Release Date: March 2024

Version: Opus

Model Type: Multimodal AI (text and image processing)

Context window: 200K

Overview:

Claude-3-Opus is a highly capable AI model designed to process and analyze both text and image data. It excels in tasks requiring complex reasoning, mathematical problem-solving, coding, and multilingual text understanding.

Key Features:
  • Multimodal capabilities: Processes images alongside text for richer context analysis.
  • Superior performance on benchmarks like GPQA, MMLU, and MMMU.
  • Improved fluency in non-English languages, enhancing global usability.
  • Seamless integration with cloud services and custom workflows.
API Pricing:
  • Input: $15.75 per million tokens.
  • Output: $78.75 per million tokens.
Intended Use:

Claude 3 Opus is proficient in a variety of tasks, including:

  • Engaging in open-ended discussions and idea development.
  • Handling coding tasks and text-related functions like searching, composing, editing, structuring, and summarizing.
  • Analyzing visual data such as charts, graphs, and images to enhance productivity and facilitate decision-making.
  • Tackling specialized tasks that demand intricate content creation, analysis, forecasting, and precise summarization.

Claude 3 Opus also excels in interpreting clinical histories and imaging findings in radiology quiz cases (62.0% accuracy). Learn more about this and other models and their applications in Healthcare here.

Language Support:

Supports multiple languages, with enhanced capabilities for non-English languages.

Technical Details

Architecture:

  • Uses a blend of unsupervised and supervised learning techniques, integrating Constitutional AI for ethical alignment.

Training Data:

  • Trained on a mix of public internet data and proprietary datasets as of August 2023, with a focus on ethical data usage and diversity.

Performance Metrics:

  • Sets new standards in AI benchmarks, excelling in tasks requiring reasoning, language processing, and coding abilities.

Comparison to Other Models:

  • Demonstrates superior performance compared to previous models in the Claude series and other contemporaneous AI models.

Usage

Code Samples/SDK:

Ethical Considerations

  • Developed under Anthropic’s Responsible AI Use and Scaling Policy to ensure ethical use and deployment.

Licensing

  • Commercial and non-commercial licensing options are available.

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References: Anthropic Model-Card

Use cases

  • Advanced reasoning: Deep analysis across long documents
  • Multimodal workflows: Accept both text and image inputs
  • Coding and debugging: Generate, review code, execute logic tasks
  • Task automation: Plan and invoke API-like tasks
  • Research & planning: Brainstorming and hypothesis generation

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How to use Claude 3 Opus API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to .

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.

Claude 3 Opus API Pricing

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Claude 3 Opus Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreWhat it measuresSourceRetrieved
Intelligence
8.7
Composite score across standardised reasoning, knowledge and problem-solving evaluations, measured independently by Artificial AnalysisSourceSeptember 12, 2026
Coding
19.5
Composite score across standardised coding evaluations, measured independently by Artificial AnalysisSourceSeptember 12, 2026

Claude 3 Opus vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
Claude 3 Opus
This page
$6.5 / 1M tokens
$39 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Reasoning + agents
$2.6 / 1M tokens
$13 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Balanced coding + agents
$3.9 / 1M tokens
$19.5 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Long-context, multimodal & agentic workflows
$1.95 / 1M tokens
$11.7 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Reasoning + agents

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Claude 3 Opus can stream responses as they are generated.

Yes, Claude 3 Opus supports both function calling and structured outputs.

Claude 3 Opus was built by Anthropic.

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