Claude Opus 5

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Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.

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Claude Opus 5 is available today. It’s a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.

On coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA , Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art, though it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks.

Opus 5 is designed to be used every day: it works more efficiently than other models. It’s the new default model on Claude Max, and the strongest model on Claude Pro.

Claude Opus 5 provides greatly improved performance for the same cost as its predecessor, Opus 4.8. The charts in this section show how performance changes according to the model’s effort setting, which customers can use to optimize for intelligence or conserve tokens for faster and cheaper results.

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