Claude Opus 5 Is Here, At Half The Price
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 today. It comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price, and it's the new state of the art on coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench. Opus 5 is now the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro. Pricing stays unchanged from Opus 4.8, at 5 dollars per million input tokens and 25 dollars per million output tokens. Anthropic's own automated behavioral audit found Opus 5 to be its most aligned model to date, while the company keeps it intentionally behind Mythos 5 on offensive cybersecurity capability.
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Anthropic just released Claude Opus 5, and it reaches near frontier intelligence at half the price.
Claude Opus 5 is available today. It comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.
It's the new state of the art on coding and knowledge work evals like Frontier-Bench, and it's the new default on Claude Max.
Pricing is unchanged at five dollars per million input tokens and twenty-five dollars per million output tokens.
Anthropic calls it their most aligned model to date, and it stays intentionally behind Mythos 5 on offensive cybersecurity.
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- Claude Opus 5 is available today and comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.(Anthropic official announcement: Introducing Claude Opus 5)
- Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art on coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench, and is the new default model on Claude Max.(Anthropic official announcement: Introducing Claude Opus 5)
- Opus 5 is priced at 5 dollars per million input tokens and 25 dollars per million output tokens, the same as Opus 4.8.(Anthropic official announcement: Introducing Claude Opus 5)
- An automated behavioral audit found Opus 5 to be Anthropic's most aligned model to date, and it remains intentionally behind Mythos 5 on offensive cybersecurity.(Anthropic official announcement: Introducing Claude Opus 5)