Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22) vs Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29)

Name: Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29)
Brand: Anthropic
Price: 15.000000 USD

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22) vs Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29): Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22) is cheaper by 80% on average. Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22) from Anthropic (200,000-token context, tool calls) vs. Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29) from Anthropic (200,000-token context, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

Input tokens / request3,000

0200,000

Output tokens / request400

08,192

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22)Cheaper

Anthropic

$2,283/mo

Input $3.00/M · Output $15.00/M

Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29)

Anthropic

$11,414/mo

Input $15.00/M · Output $75.00/M

At this workload, Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22) is 80% cheaper than Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29) — a savings of $9,131/month ($109,575/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022
  provider: anthropic
fallback:
  model: claude-3-opus-20240229
  provider: anthropic
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22) Anthropic	Claude 3 Opus (2024-02-29) Anthropic
Input price	$3.00/M	$15.00/M
Output price	$15.00/M	$75.00/M
Context window	200,000	200,000
Max output	8,192	4,096
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	—
Reasoning	—	—
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	✓
Pricing verified	May 7, 2026	May 12, 2026