Substitutes · Claude Opus 510 alternatives · within 10% performance · lower price

Cheaper alternatives to Claude Opus 5

Drop-in substitutes within 10% of Claude Opus 5's average benchmark, priced lower, sorted by price. Target price $5.00/M · target score 69.4.

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Free
Score
68.7
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131K
Save 100%·99% of Claude Opus 5
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Price
Free
Score
66.4
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131K
Save 100%·96% of Claude Opus 5
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Price
$0.075
Score
64.2
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1.0M
Save 99%·93% of Claude Opus 5
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Price
$0.090
Score
73.3
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Save 98%·106% of Claude Opus 5
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$0.100
Score
76.9
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Save 98%·111% of Claude Opus 5
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Price
$0.200
Score
66.2
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Save 96%·95% of Claude Opus 5
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Price
$0.300
Score
69.5
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Save 94%·100% of Claude Opus 5
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Price
$0.300
Score
64.8
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Save 94%·93% of Claude Opus 5
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Price
$0.400
Score
78.2
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Save 92%·113% of Claude Opus 5
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Price
$0.600
Score
69.2
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131K
Save 88%·100% of Claude Opus 5
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The cheapest drop-in alternative is gpt-oss-120b (free) at Free/M input · 100% cheaper than Claude Opus 5 with 99% of the benchmark score.