Anthropic · Frontier
Claude Opus 5
The current Opus tier: built for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, at half the price of Fable 5. Thinking is on by default. A drop-in upgrade from Opus 4.8 at the same price.
Model ID: claude-opus-5
What that means
A worked example
Per-token pricing is hard to feel. Take a moderately chatty production workload: 100 calls a day, roughly 10,000 tokens in and 2,000 out each time. On Claude Opus 5 that comes to about:
$300 / month
Before caching, batching or volume discounts, all of which move this number a long way. Illustrative only.
Strong at
- -Agentic coding
- -Deep reasoning
- -Code review and bug-finding
Typical use
- -Multi-file features
- -Long autonomous coding sessions
- -Enterprise deliverables
Watch out for
- -Prompt cache minimum drops to 512 tokens
- -Separate rate-limit pool from Opus 4.x
Same tier
What else to look at
| Model | Developer | Context | In / 1M | Out / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | 1M | $10 | $50 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | 1M | $5 | $25 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | 1M | $5 | $30 |
| GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | 1M | $5 | $30 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | 2M | $2 | $12 |
Verified 2026-08-07.