Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max (Anthropic)
Opus 5 is Anthropic’s cheaper default workhorse for paid Claude users.
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 is available now on all paid plans and through the Claude API. The company says it approaches Claude Fable 5’s frontier performance at half the price and keeps Opus 4.8 pricing. It is now the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro. Anthropic also says a Fast mode runs about 2.5 times the default speed. Techmeme's note
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 is available now on all paid plans and through the Claude API. The company says it approaches Claude Fable 5’s frontier performance at half the price and keeps Opus 4.8 pricing. It is now the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro. Anthropic also says a Fast mode runs about 2.5 times the default speed. Techmeme's note
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