Uplink Red Team (Pro) vs Claude Opus 5.5
Uplink Red Team (Pro) costs less on both: $1.50 in and $6.00 out per million tokens, against $2.80 in and $10.00 out for Claude Opus 5.5. Both on one key at UplinkSwitch, each next to its developer's list price.
Prices · per million tokens, USD
Get a key| Tokens | Uplink Red Team (Pro)glm-5.3-redteam | Claude Opus 5.5claude-opus-5-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.50no list price | $2.80Anthropic lists $4.00 · 30% under |
| Cached input | $0.425no list price | $0.15Anthropic lists $0.20 · 25% under |
| Output | $6.00no list price | $10.00Anthropic lists $20.00 · 50% under |
| Context window | — | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Max output | — | 128,000 tokens |
| Input | — | text, image |
| Released | — | 2026-09-22 |
| Anthropic lifecycle | — | active, retires no sooner than 2027-09-22 |
| Formats | OpenAI SDK | Anthropic SDK, OpenAI SDK |
| Developer | UplinkSwitch | Anthropic |
List price: each developer's published rate, read October 2026. A model with no cached rate bills cached tokens at its input rate. Live from GET https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/catalog. Lifecycle from Anthropic's model deprecations, read 2026-10-19.
What the same work costs · USD, here and at list
| Work | Uplink Red Team (Pro) | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 chat requests | $6.00 | $10.60list $18.00 |
| 100 long documents | $8.70 | $16.00list $24.00 |
| A month of both, daily | $441.00 | $798.00list $1,260.00 |
A chat request is 2,000 input and 500 output tokens; a long document is 50,000 in and 2,000 out; the month is 1,000 chats and 100 documents a day for 30 days, uncached. Over that month Uplink Red Team (Pro) costs $357.00 less here.
Same key, same URL
One base URL and one key serve both models. The Uplink Red Team (Pro) API and the Claude Opus 5.5 API answer at the same base URL in the OpenAI format, so a client or SDK setup moves between them by changing the model id. The request below calls Uplink Red Team (Pro); put claude-opus-5-5 in the model field to call Claude Opus 5.5 instead.
shell
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"glm-5.3-redteam","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'Model pages: Uplink Red Team (Pro) API, Claude Opus 5.5 API. Pricing by family: Claude. More comparisons: Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Questions
- Which costs less, Uplink Red Team (Pro) or Claude Opus 5.5?
- Uplink Red Team (Pro) costs less on both: $1.50 in and $6.00 out per million tokens, against $2.80 in and $10.00 out for Claude Opus 5.5.
- Can I switch between them by changing the model id?
- Yes. Both answer in the OpenAI SDK format at the same base URL with the same key. Change the model id from glm-5.3-redteam to claude-opus-5-5 and nothing else.
- Is there a subscription?
- No. Prepaid credit from $10, with no subscription or monthly fee. Each top-up locks your prices for 30 days.
- Is Uplink Red Team (Pro) the better pick?
- Better depends on the job; this page compares what the catalog can measure. Uplink Red Team (Pro) costs less on both: $1.50 in and $6.00 out per million tokens, against $2.80 in and $10.00 out for Claude Opus 5.5. Both run on the same key, so the fair test is your own prompt sent to each model id.