Developer benchmarks 209 Claude Opus calls at about $0.11 each
11/12/2026 — 11/12, 18:20·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- A developer made 209 Claude Opus (claude-opus-5-5) calls over ten days across 22 task types, spending $23.7465 in total, or about $0.11362 p…
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On November 12, 2026, a post on DEV Community's AI section presented the results of a developer's hands-on test of Claude Opus (claude-opus-5-5). Over a ten-day window running from October 30 to November 8, 2026, the developer issued 209 calls to Claude Opus spanning 22 distinct task types. Total spending came to $23.7465, which works out to $0.11362 per call, with a median call duration of 18.1 seconds.
During the same period, the developer also ran Claude Sonnet (claude-sonnet-5-5) 156 times, at a cost of $0.0165 per call, a median of 2.3 seconds, and a slowest call of 19.2 seconds. On that basis, each Opus call cost roughly 7 times a Sonnet call, and its median duration was roughly 8 times longer. The post is the only publicly available report on this testing, and no further follow-up has been published so far.
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A developer ran 209 Claude Opus (claude-opus-5-5) calls over 10 days across 22 job types, spending $23.7465 total — about $0.11362 per call, with a median latency of 18.1 seconds. In the same window, Claude Sonnet (claude-sonnet-5-5) handled 156 calls at $0.0165 each, a 2.3-second median and a 19.2-second worst case. Opus cost roughly 7x Sonnet per call and ran about 8x longer at the median.
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