Claude Opus 5 Hits Record High Costs: Over $50 for a Single Task
jyangballin · x · 2026-08-13
Developer tests reveal that while Claude Opus 5 demonstrates exceptional coding capabilities, its usage costs have also hit a record high. A single complex task cost $50.53, involving 257 conversational turns and outputting over 357k tokens, with all consumption metrics far exceeding any previous model in its lineage.
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