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)
Anthropic is positioning Opus 5 as the practical Claude upgrade: stronger than 4.8, near Fable 5, without a higher Opus price.
ZDNET’s note says Opus 5 is aimed at coding, knowledge work, and agent workflows. Anthropic says it uses fewer tokens for similar quality and is more friendly to prompt-cache-heavy tool use. Pricing stays at $5 per 1M input tokens and $25 per 1M output tokens, matching Opus 4.8. Techmeme's note
ZDNET’s note says Opus 5 is aimed at coding, knowledge work, and agent workflows. Anthropic says it uses fewer tokens for similar quality and is more friendly to prompt-cache-heavy tool use. Pricing stays at $5 per 1M input tokens and $25 per 1M output tokens, matching Opus 4.8. Techmeme's note
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