# Claude Opus 5 now available on AI Gateway

> Source: <https://vercel.com/changelog/claude-opus-5-now-available-on-ai-gateway>
> Published: 2026-07-24 00:00:00+00:00

[Claude Opus 5](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/claude-opus-5) from Anthropic is now available on AI Gateway.

Opus 5 improves on previous Opus models for long-horizon agentic coding, handling multi-file features, larger refactors, and end-to-end feature work, and completing full tasks rather than leaving stubs or placeholders.

Opus 5 is effective at low and medium effort, which produce quality at a fraction of the tokens and latency of higher settings. Vision is stronger on charts, documents, diagrams, and UI replication, and Opus 5 makes effective use of tools to analyze, crop, and verify visual work. It also coordinates teams of subagents well, which suits multi-agent workflows.

Reasoning is on by default. In AI SDK 7, set the reasoning effort with the top-level `reasoning`

option, from `minimal`

up to `xhigh`

, or `none`

:

Like Fable 5, Opus 5 ships with elevated cybersecurity safeguards, so benign security work can occasionally trigger a safety classifier and get blocked. To add a backstop, use AI Gateway's model fallbacks. List backup models in a `models`

array under `providerOptions.gateway`

, and the gateway tries them in order when the primary model fails. The same option works across every AI Gateway API format.

Opus 5 is compatible with [Zero Data Retention](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/zdr).

To enable fast mode, pass `speed: 'fast'`

in the `anthropic`

provider options in AI SDK:

Opus 5 can be served by more than one provider. To see every provider serving it, along with per-provider pricing, supported parameters, uptime, throughput, and latency, call the model endpoints API:

Route your coding agent through AI Gateway to run Opus 5 with unified spend tracking, model fallbacks, and access to every model.

Run `vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup`

to detect the agents on your machine, provision a key, and write their config. See how to [set it up in Claude Code](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/coding-agents/claude-code).