Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8 (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-opus-5-near-fable-performance-at-half-the-price/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260724/i20.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260724/p20#a260724p20" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> David Gewirtz / <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/">ZDNET</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-opus-5-near-fable-performance-at-half-the-price/">Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; ZDNET's key takeaways&nbsp; &mdash; Opus 5 targets coding, knowledge work, and agent workflows.&nbsp; &mdash; Anthropic says it uses fewer tokens for similar quality.</p>