Which is cheaper, Claude 3 Opus or Jamba 1.5 Mini?
As of August 25, 2026, Jamba 1.5 Mini is 99% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Jamba 1.5 Mini costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens ($0.60 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Claude 3 Opus costs $15.00 / $75.00 per million tokens ($90.00 blended). Sources: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does Claude 3 Opus vs Jamba 1.5 Mini cost per million tokens?
Claude 3 Opus Claude API pricing from Anthropic is $15.00 input and $75.00 output per million tokens via Anthropic. Jamba 1.5 Mini AI21 Labs API pricing is $0.20 input and $0.40 output per million tokens via AI21 Labs. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, Claude 3 Opus or Jamba 1.5 Mini?
Claude 3 Opus leads on HumanEval: Claude 3 Opus at 84.9% vs Jamba 1.5 Mini at 62.8%. SWE-bench measures real GitHub fixes; LiveCodeBench measures contest programming.
What is the context window for Claude 3 Opus vs Jamba 1.5 Mini?
Claude 3 Opus supports a 200K token context window, while Jamba 1.5 Mini supports 256K tokens. Jamba 1.5 Mini offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Which model performs better on benchmarks, Claude 3 Opus or Jamba 1.5 Mini?
Claude 3 Opus leads on 6 of 7 shared benchmarks versus Jamba 1.5 Mini's 1 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Jamba 1.5 Mini better for production use?
Both Claude 3 Opus and Jamba 1.5 Mini are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Jamba 1.5 Mini has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Can I switch between Claude 3 Opus and Jamba 1.5 Mini in my app?
Yes. Call Claude 3 Opus through Anthropic and Jamba 1.5 Mini through AI21 Labs with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
How accurate is this Claude 3 Opus vs Jamba 1.5 Mini pricing data?
List rates are the latest published Claude API pricing from Anthropic and AI21 Labs API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
What is the output token limit for Claude 3 Opus and Jamba 1.5 Mini?
Claude 3 Opus supports up to 200K output tokens per request, while Jamba 1.5 Mini supports up to 256K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Which model has better throughput, Claude 3 Opus or Jamba 1.5 Mini?
Claude 3 Opus runs at approximately 42 tokens/second while Jamba 1.5 Mini runs at 100 tokens/second. Jamba 1.5 Mini is faster in raw throughput. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
How do I switch the models in this Claude 3 Opus vs Jamba 1.5 Mini comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Claude 3 Opus or Jamba 1.5 Mini from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
