Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing
Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The Anthropic team positions Opus 5 as approaching the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. It is now the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro. What actually changed at the API level Three changes are quite important before any benchmark does: Thinking is on b
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Anthropic released a new flagship model called Claude Opus 5 at the same pricing as its predecessor, positioning it as approaching the intelligence of a more expensive model at half the cost. The model now has thinking enabled by default, which changes how developers need to structure their requests and manage token limits. Opus 5 shows particularly strong performance on agentic tasks like automation and coding benchmarks, with scores substantially higher than the previous version. The company maintained most safety protections from earlier versions while relaxing restrictions specifically for source-code vulnerability finding, though it kept blocks on exploit generation and penetration testing.
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