Is OpenRouter Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (Fast) deprecated?

What kind of model is this?

Tags describe what Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (Fast) takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow OpenRouter's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.

Modality

• Text
• Vision

Use case

• Chat
• Coding
• Reasoning
• Agents & tool use
• Long context

Tier

• Frontier

Access

• Hosted API

Languages

• Multilingual

Specifications

Input price

$10.00 / M tokens

Output price

$50.00 / M tokens

Price band

Flagship

Context window

1M tokens

Max output

unknown

Input

Text, image

Output

Text

Knowledge cutoff

unknown

Tool use

unknown

Structured output

unknown

Weights licence

not published

Model maker

Anthropic

“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.

These figures come from OpenRouter's listing, not from the model maker's own price sheet. Treat them as the cost of routing through OpenRouter, not as an official tariff.

Lifecycle

1. Released unknown
2. Deprecated not announced OpenRouter has not published the date this happened
3. Retired 1 September 2026

What is it good for?

No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from OpenRouter's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.

What to use instead of Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (Fast)

• Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 Derived

  OpenRouter ● Active

  Same provider, same tier (frontier), similar price; shares chat, coding, reasoning, agents and long-context.

  $10.00 in · $50.00 out / M tokens · 1M context

• Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 Derived

  OpenRouter ● Active

  Same provider, same tier (frontier), similar price; shares chat, coding, reasoning, agents and long-context.

  $10.00 in · $50.00 out / M tokens · 1M context

• OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Derived

  OpenRouter ● Active

  Same provider, same tier (frontier), similar price; shares chat, coding, reasoning, agents and long-context.

  $10.00 in · $50.00 out / M tokens · 1.1M context

• OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Pro Derived

  OpenRouter ● Active

  Same provider, same tier (frontier), similar price; shares chat, coding, reasoning, agents and long-context.

  $10.00 in · $50.00 out / M tokens · 1.1M context

• Claude Fable 5 Derived

  Amazon Bedrock ● Active

  Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (frontier), similar price; shares chat, coding, reasoning, agents and long-context.

  $10.00 in · $50.00 out / M tokens · 1M context

Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.

Sources

• openrouter.ai ↗ https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-5-fast
• openrouter.ai ↗ https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
• openrouter.ai ↗ https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models/anthropic/claude-opus-5-fast/endpoints

Verified against the source on 10 September 2026. Dataset snapshot 10 September 2026. Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.