Claude Opus 5

Anthropic's near-frontier model delivering close to top-tier performance at roughly half the price.

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Overview

Claude Opus 5 launched July 24, 2026, designed to match much of Claude Fable's performance on many tasks at roughly half the price. It was Anthropic's fourth Claude 5-family release within about two months of launching.

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Key features

  • Near-Fable-tier performance at roughly half the price
  • Part of a rapid Claude 5-family release cadence (fourth release in under two months)

Use cases

  • Cost-sensitive complex workloads
  • General-purpose agent and coding work where Fable-tier cost isn't justified

Pricing

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Dates and sources

Released
24 Jul 2026
Record updated
23 Sept 2026
Record last checked
23 Sept 2026

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