Claude Opus 5
Anthropic llmSuccessor to Opus 4.8 adding a low, medium and high effort control, positioned close to Claude Fable 5's frontier intelligence at roughly half the price.
overall ⌄
81.7
2 of 93 ranked
price · $/M tokens
5 / 25
in / out, as of 2026-07-25
to run it yourself ⌄
API only
no weights to run
Benchmarks
What its maker published, and what anyone else measured. Every figure links the document it came from.
Cheaper, and at least as good
Nothing is both cheaper and ranked as high. This model is on the value frontier — whatever you pay for it, you are paying for something.
Lineage
No recorded lineage — root or standalone model.
Metadata
| org | Anthropic |
| released | 2026-07-24 |
| license | proprietary |