Claude Opus 5 first impressions point to stronger coding at the same price
Prompt Engineering · youtube · 2026-07-25
Claude Opus 5 first impressions: strong coding, same price, lower cyber capability
A quick review of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 compares it with “Fable 5” across third-party benchmarks, including Cursor and Devin/Frontier Code. The reviewer says Opus 5 looks especially strong on agentic coding and appears to deliver better performance at roughly half the price.
- Pricing is described as unchanged from Opus 4.8.
- Anthropic appears to have reduced cybersecurity capabilities on purpose.
- The video tests real demos on claude.ai and Claude Code with 1M context.
- Demo examples include a Pokémon encyclopedia site, a crowd animation spelling “Hello World, I’m Opus” with camera controls, and an ISS tracker that takes a long time to generate but produces a detailed globe, footprint, and predicted path.
- The reviewer also flags one benchmark chart detail as questionable and plans a deeper follow-up.
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