
Introducing Claude Opus 5 \ Anthropic
Claude Opus 5 has been released as a new AI model focusing on coding, knowledge work, and scientific research. It provides improved performance over its predecessor, Opus 4.8, at the same price.
Why it matters
Users can perform complex software engineering and scientific tasks more efficiently without increasing their costs. This improves accessibility to high-intelligence automation for developers and researchers.
The details
- Input tokens cost $5 per million; output tokens cost $25 per million.
- It is the default model on Claude Max and strongest on Claude Pro.
- The model outperforms others on the ARC-AGI 3 novel problem-solving evaluation.
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Anthropic owns Claude API
Anthropic provides the Claude API
Anthropic owns Claude Max
Anthropic offers Claude Max.
Anthropic owns Claude Pro
Anthropic offers Claude Pro.
Anthropic owns Claude Opus 5
Anthropic develops and operates Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 competes with Claude Fable 5
Comes close to the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.
Claude Opus 5 competes with Claude Mythos 5
Evaluated alongside Mythos 5 on cybersecurity and biological research tasks.
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Claude Opus 5 is related to Opus 4.8
Successor model offering improved performance for the same cost.
Claude Opus 5 uses Computer Vision
Wrote its own computer vision pipeline to extract geometry from raw pixels.
Claude Opus 5 is related to Bioinformatics
Demonstrates improved performance on bioinformatics and life sciences evaluations.
Claude Max uses Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is the default model on Claude Max.
Claude Pro uses Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is the strongest model on Claude Pro.
Claude.ai uses Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is available in Claude.ai.
Claude Code uses Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is available in Claude Code.
Claude Cowork uses Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is available in Claude Cowork.
Claude API uses Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is available on the Claude API.
Anthropic owns and operates the Claude.ai web platform
Anthropic developed and released Sonnet 5
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