Anthropic's Opus 5 hauls Fable 5-level scores at half the price

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, July 24. The company sold it to developers and enterprise buyers as a model somewhere around Fable 5’s intelligence for half the price.

It follows Opus 4.8 by two months, and gives cost-conscious teams a cheaper default than the flagship they’ve been paying a premium to use.

Opus 5 matches Fable 5 at half the price

Opus 5 has the same operating cost as its predecessor. But it does a lot more, Anthropic says. The model outperforms all competitors on the coding assessment Frontier-Bench v0.1. It is cheaper per task, and outperforms Opus 4.8 by more than a factor of two. There’s a tradeoff. An effort setting puts buyers in control. Buyers can choose between maximum intelligence or dialling down to spend fewer tokens on faster, cheaper answers.

It’s also now the default model on Claude Max, and the most capable option on Claude Pro. Anthropic sells it as a workhorse for everyday use, not as a specialist. The company claims it is more efficient than the alternatives sitting next to it.

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