# Anthropic: claude-opus-4-5-20251101

- Model ID: `claude-opus-4-5-20251101`
- Provider: Anthropic
- Web version: https://www.moleapi.com/en/models/anthropic/claude-opus-4-5
- Content status: alias

## Model introduction

Claude Opus 4.5 is the high-capability flagship of the Claude 4.5 generation for difficult reasoning, coding, and visual understanding.

## Model capabilities

- OpenAI compatible
- Anthropic compatible
- Prompt cache
- Reasoning

### Verified specifications

- Official positioning: High-capability Claude 4.5 flagship
- Context window: 200,000 tokens
- Input / output: Text, image / Text
- Verified capabilities: Extended thinking, vision, tool use

## Model pricing and access

Pricing is supplied dynamically by the MoleAPI console API.

### Standard (default, x1)

- Input: $5 / 1M tokens
- Output: $25 / 1M tokens
- Cache read: $0.5 / 1M tokens
- Cache write: $6.25 / 1M tokens

### Discount (discount, x0.8)

- Input: $4 / 1M tokens
- Output: $20 / 1M tokens
- Cache read: $0.4 / 1M tokens
- Cache write: $5 / 1M tokens

### Relay (relay, x0.3)

- Input: $1.5 / 1M tokens
- Output: $7.5 / 1M tokens
- Cache read: $0.15 / 1M tokens
- Cache write: $1.875 / 1M tokens

### Access protocols

| Protocol | Method | Endpoint |
| --- | --- | --- |
| anthropic | POST | /v1/messages |
| openai | POST | /v1/chat/completions |

- Live pricing source: https://home.moleapi.com/api/pricing

## About claude-opus-4-5-20251101

Claude Opus 4.5 is the high-capability flagship of the Claude 4.5 generation for difficult reasoning, coding, and visual understanding.

### Best for

Complex system analysis, deep coding work, scientific and business reasoning, and high-quality visual-document understanding.

### Core strengths

- Fits open-ended, difficult, accuracy-first problems.
- Supports vision, extended thinking, and tools.
- A mature 4.5 tool ecosystem helps compatibility with older projects.

### Limitations

- Newer Opus 4.6 through 4.8 improve capability, context, and efficiency.
- High cost makes it a poor fit for simple batch or low-latency work.

### Selection and production evaluation

Start a claude-opus-4-5-20251101 evaluation by mapping its official positioning to real work: Complex system analysis, deep coding work, scientific and business reasoning, and high-quality visual-document understanding. The first pass should exercise both its main strength, "Fits open-ended, difficult, accuracy-first problems.", and its known limitation, "Newer Opus 4.6 through 4.8 improve capability, context, and efficiency.", instead of relying on a single subjective general-chat comparison.

For access, MoleAPI currently lists anthropic, openai protocols and the Standard, Discount, Relay billing groups for this Anthropic model; the default price summary is Input $5 / 1M tokens · Output $25 / 1M tokens. Pricing, protocols, and groups come from the live catalog, so production planning should still price representative requests using real context length, output size, and cache-hit assumptions.

No independent ranking is shown unless it matches this exact model ID and reasoning profile, so nearby variants are not used as a proxy. Before launch, pin the model ID, prompt, and sample set, then compare task accuracy, structured-output validity, tool-call success, and timeout rates under the same conditions.

The model material on this page was last checked on 2026-07-24. When upstream model cards, context limits, or tool support change, update the cited bilingual facts before changing the recommendation; live MoleAPI price changes remain separate and update from the catalog automatically.

### Sources

- [B.AI Claude Opus 4.5 model guide](https://docs.b.ai/llmservice/models/claude-opus-4-5/) — B.AI
- [Anthropic Claude model card resources](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/resources/overview) — Anthropic
- Last verified: 2026-07-24

## Code examples

### cURL

```bash
curl https://api.moleapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MOLEAPI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"claude-opus-4-5-20251101","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
```

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## Frequently asked questions

### How is claude-opus-4-5-20251101 priced?

Prices are read from the MoleAPI console API and update with model prices, context tiers, and account groups.

### How can I access claude-opus-4-5-20251101?

The catalog currently lists anthropic, openai.

### How do I switch an existing project to claude-opus-4-5-20251101?

Keep the MoleAPI API address and key, replace the model parameter, and check protocol-specific parameters.

### Where do the claude-opus-4-5-20251101 details come from?

Capabilities and limitations are checked against B.AI and the other cited pages; pricing and protocols come from the MoleAPI console.