Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 with stronger coding, better alignment, same price as Opus 4.8
ClaudeOfficial · reddit · 2026-07-25
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, saying it comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 while costing half as much.
What Anthropic claims
- Best-in-class results on several coding and knowledge-work evaluations
- More efficient than its predecessor, with better cost per task
- Its behavioral audit says it is Anthropic’s most aligned model yet, with the lowest rates of reckless or deceptive behavior
Availability and pricing
- Available today on all paid plans and the Claude API
- Priced the same as Opus 4.8
- Default model on Claude Max and the strongest option on Claude Pro
- Also available in Fast mode, which runs about 2.5× the default speed
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