{"slug": "opus-5-costs-a-third-of-the-price-and-thats-actually-the-problem", "title": "Opus 5 costs a third of the price — and that’s actually the problem", "summary": "Anthropic launched Opus 5 on Friday, the latest iteration of its heavyweight model, arriving just two months after Opus 4.8. The new model costs a third of the price of its predecessor, which the company frames as a problem.", "body_md": "On Friday, Anthropic launched Opus 5, the latest iteration of its heavyweight model. Arriving just two months after Opus 4.8\n\nThe post Opus 5 costs a third of the price — and that’s actually the problem appeared first on The New Stack.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/opus-5-costs-a-third-of-the-price-and-thats-actually-the-problem", "canonical_source": "https://thenewstack.io/opus-5-agentic-coding-cost/", "published_at": "2026-07-24 19:06:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-24 19:09:54.367122+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Opus 5", "Opus 4.8"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/opus-5-costs-a-third-of-the-price-and-thats-actually-the-problem", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/opus-5-costs-a-third-of-the-price-and-thats-actually-the-problem.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/opus-5-costs-a-third-of-the-price-and-thats-actually-the-problem.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/opus-5-costs-a-third-of-the-price-and-thats-actually-the-problem.jsonld"}}