Claude launches Opus 5, claiming frontier-level intelligence at half the price

HuaxiuYaoML · x · 2026-07-25

Claude has introduced Opus 5.

• The company describes it as a thoughtful, proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5.
• The quoted post says it does so at half the price.
• The attached image appears to show an agentic coding benchmark comparison, suggesting the release is being positioned around coding performance as well as frontier capability.

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