# Anthropic launches Opus 5

> Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, and the headline is efficiency. The company says the model approaches the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 while costing roughly half as much, and it actually outperforms Fable 5 on several benchmarks despite being more compact. Pricing holds at 5 dollars per million input tokens and 25 per million output, matching Opus 4.8. Two details stand out. Anthropic claims Opus 5 posts state-of-the-art coding performance, the capability that has become the industry's main battleground. And it says the model's safety classifiers should trigger roughly 85 percent less often than Fable 5, which if it holds up means fewer of the false refusals that frustrate real users. Opus 5 is available across the Claude API, Claude.ai, and Claude Code, and it launches alongside a new desktop agent called Claude Cowork. The theme is consistent: more capability per dollar, aimed squarely at developers and the growing wave of agentic products.

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## Wortins' read

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, and the headline is efficiency. The company says the model approaches the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 while costing roughly half as much, and it actually outperforms Fable 5 on several benchmarks despite being more compact. Pricing holds at 5 dollars per million input tokens and 25 per million output, matching Opus 4.8. Two details stand out. Anthropic claims Opus 5 posts state-of-the-art coding performance, the capability that has become the industry's main battleground. And it says the model's safety classifiers should trigger roughly 85 percent less often than Fable 5, which if it holds up means fewer of the false refusals that frustrate real users. Opus 5 is available across the Claude API, Claude.ai, and Claude Code, and it launches alongside a new desktop agent called Claude Cowork. The theme is consistent: more capability per dollar, aimed squarely at developers and the growing wave of agentic products.

## Source

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