Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 with benchmark gains and half the price of Fable 5
thesaraharminta · x · 2026-07-25
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 is now available, with the post describing it as a thoughtful, proactive model that gets close to frontier-level intelligence at half the price of Claude Fable 5.
The attached benchmark image highlights gains across several areas, including:
- Agentic terminal coding: 43.3%
- Knowledge work: 1861
- Novel problem-solving: 30.2%
- Agentic search: 90.8%
- Computer use: 70.6%
- Business workflows: 26.0%
- Biology: 49.4% hard / 90.1% human solved
In the same comparison table, Opus 5 generally leads or stays competitive with Fable 5, Opus 4.8, and GPT-5.6 Sol on the shown tasks.
Related event: Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 5 with Top Benchmark Scores(28 posts)→
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