Claude Opus 5
Language modelPrevious generationCard summarizedA thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price
Active (legacy) · retires not before 24 Jul 2027● Re-checked 12 Oct 2026 · 95 facts · 0 corrections · 2 unconfirmedSource: System Card: Claude Opus 5 (194 pp)
Use it via API
Where to call it
- Claude API
claude-opus-5 - Amazon Bedrock
anthropic.claude-opus-5 - Google Vertex AI
claude-opus-5 - Microsoft Foundry / Azure
claude-opus-5
Supports
- Image input
- PDF input
- Structured outputs
- Reasoning control
- Tool calling
- Web search
- Prompt caching
- Batch API
Good for
- Agentic coding: large gains over Opus 4.8 (SWE-bench Pro 79.2%)
- Computer use and multimodal tasks
- Long-horizon professional knowledge work (GDPval-AA, AA-Briefcase, AutomationBench)
Watch out for
Replaced by
Claude Opus 5.5$4.00 / $20.00
This model: $5.00 / $25.00 per 1M tokens
Compare side by sideOverview
Opus 5
A thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price
- Cost
- $5.00 in
- Context
- 1M
- Input / output
- $5.00 / $25.00
- Max output
- 128K
- Knows up to
- May 2026
- Released
- 24 Jul 2026
Anthropic's Opus-class large language model and an upgrade to Claude Opus 4.8, with gains in agentic coding, computer use and long-horizon knowledge work, plus better mathematical and scientific reasoning. On many evaluations it is comparable to, and sometimes ahead of, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. p.2, p.4
claude-opus-5- Input / output per 1M
- $5.00 / $25.00
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 128K
- Knows up to
- May 2026
- Reasoning
- Adaptive
- Weights
- Closed
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