Opus 5 reportedly routing to Opus 5.2 for some users

ResultBackground2450 · reddit · 2026-09-15

A Reddit user reports that requests to Opus 5 are being routed to Opus 5.2 for some users, citing an X post as source.

If accurate, this suggests Anthropic is silently canarying a newer model version behind the existing endpoint. The report is unverified, but routing changes like this often precede an official model release.

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