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Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, its new flagship model, claiming performance comparable to rival model Fable 5 at half the cost. The company says Opus 5 leads on several coding and knowledge-work benchmarks while requiring far less manual intervention.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, pricing it identically to Opus 4.8 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens while claiming performance approaching its higher-tier Fable 5 model. The release includes a faster processing mode, automatic safety fallbacks, and mid-conversation tool switching that preserves prompt caching.