Claude Opus 5

Anthropic's new flagship, released July 24, 2026 as API model ID `claude-opus-5`. Anthropic positions it as coming close to Claude Fable 5's frontier intelligence at half the price, and it holds the same $5/$25 rate as Opus 4.8 rather than charging a premium. Now the default model on Claude Max, and available on Bedrock as `anthropic.claude-opus-5`. An optional fast mode runs at twice the base price ($10/$50 per 1M) for roughly 2.5x the default speed.

Claude Opus 5 strengths

• Near-Fable-5 frontier intelligence at half the price
• Same $5/$25 pricing as Opus 4.8, no premium for the upgrade
• 1M-token context window
• Strong agentic and long-horizon coding work
• Optional fast mode when latency matters

Pricing & context

Cost guide: a typical call of about 10K input + 2K output tokens costs roughly $0.10 at list prices. Worth modelling against cheaper tiers before committing high-volume traffic.

When to choose Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 is best for frontier-grade reasoning, deep agents and hard coding work where you want Fable-5-class quality without Fable-5 pricing. If your workload is more cost-sensitive, weigh it against gpt-oss-120b (≈$0.03 input /1M) first.

Claude Opus 5 FAQ

How much does Claude Opus 5 cost?

Claude Opus 5 is priced at $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output tokens (public API list price), with a 1M tokens (128K max output) context window. A typical call of about 10K input and 2K output tokens costs roughly $0.10.

What is Claude Opus 5 best for?

Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic is best for frontier-grade reasoning, deep agents and hard coding work where you want Fable-5-class quality without Fable-5 pricing.

How does Claude Opus 5 pricing compare to GPT-5.6 Sol?

Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol have the same input list price ($5.00 per 1M tokens); output pricing is $25.00 vs $30.00.

Is Claude Opus 5 multimodal?

Claude Opus 5 supports text, image.

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