Anthropic Launches Opus 5, Enhancing Efficiency at Same Cost

WHO:

MarkTechPost - Anthropic is the organization releasing the new model, Claude Opus 5.

WHAT:

MarkTechPost - Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, which replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the flagship model.

MarkTechPost - The pricing for Claude Opus 5 remains unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

MarkTechPost - Opus 5 is positioned as approaching the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.

HOW:

MarkTechPost - Opus 5 is described as a frontier-class agentic coding and computer use model, focusing on efficiency.

(UPDATED July 24, 2026 22:21 UTC)

Anthropic has just released its new flagship model, Claude Opus 5, which replaces Claude Opus 4.8. The pricing for this latest model remains the same at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, and it is designed to approach the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the cost. Opus 5 is characterized as a frontier-class agentic coding and computer use model, emphasizing efficiency in its operations.