Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing
Anthropic just released Claude Opus 5—frontier-class coding and computer use at unchanged pricing. Here's why your inference costs just got interesting.
Why it matters
Anthropic is delivering significant capability upgrades (agentic coding, computer use) at the Opus tier without raising prices, forcing competitors to recalibrate their value proposition and pushing the frontier model wars into practical agent territory.
The key facts
6 to knowClaude Opus 5 replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as flagship Opus-tier model
Pricing unchanged: $5 per million input tokens, $25 per million output tokens
Positioned as approaching Claude Fable 5 intelligence at half the price
New capabilities: frontier-class agentic coding and computer use
Now default model on Anthropic platform
Release date: July 24, 2026
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Publisher excerpt: Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The Anthropic team positions Opus 5 as approaching the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. It is now…