{"slug": "anthropic-releases-more-efficient-claude-opus-5", "title": "Anthropic releases ‘more efficient’ Claude Opus 5", "summary": "Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, an update to its hybrid reasoning model that offers improved performance on coding and knowledge tasks at the same cost as its predecessor Opus 4.8. The model surpasses all others on Frontier-Bench v0.1, more than doubling Opus 4.8's performance at a lower cost per task, and performs within 0.5% of Claude Fable 5's peak score on CursorBench 3.2 at half the cost. Claude Opus 5 is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, and is available on the Claude API.", "body_md": "[Anthropic](https://www.infoworld.com/article/4171274/anthropic-puts-claude-agents-on-a-meter-across-its-subscriptions.html) has introduced Claude Opus 5, an update to its hybrid reasoning model that promises improved performance on coding and knowledge tasks, more capable agents, and sharper professional work.\n\nIntroduced [July 24](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5), Claude Opus 5 provides greatly improved performance at the same cost as its predecessor, Opus 4.8, Anthropic said. Anthropic described Claude Opus 5 as a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of [Claude Fable 5](https://www.anthropic.com/claude/fable) at half the price. Opus 5 is the new default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro.\n\nFor example, on Frontier-Bench v0.1, Claude Opus 5 surpasses all other models and more than doubles Opus 4.8’s performance at a lower cost per task, Anthropic said. On CursorBench 3.2, at max effort, Opus 5 performs within 0.5% of Fable 5’s peak score, but at half the cost per task. It also achieves greater performance at a given cost than all other models on high, xhigh, and max effort, according to Anthropic.\n\nClaude Opus 5 is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens (the same as Opus 4.8). Developers can use Claude Opus 5 on the Claude API. Alongside Opus 5, Anthropic released two updates in beta, [mid-conversation tool changes](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/mid-conversation-system-messages) on the Claude Platform and [automatic fallbacks](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/refusals-and-fallback#server-side-fallback) on the API**.**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-releases-more-efficient-claude-opus-5", "canonical_source": "https://www.infoworld.com/article/4201551/anthropic-releases-more-efficient-claude-opus-5.html", "published_at": "2026-07-27 01:37:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-27 01:53:59.172996+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude Opus 5", "Claude Fable 5", "Claude Max", "Claude Pro", "Claude API"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-releases-more-efficient-claude-opus-5", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-releases-more-efficient-claude-opus-5.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-releases-more-efficient-claude-opus-5.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-releases-more-efficient-claude-opus-5.jsonld"}}