Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5 at Half Price, Beating Fable 5 on Coding Benchmarks
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Updated · CNBC · Jul 24
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5 at Half Price, Beating Fable 5 on Coding Benchmarks
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Jul 24
Summary
Claude Opus 5 debuted Friday as Anthropic’s top-performing general-use model, priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens—half the cost of Fable 5.
Anthropic said the model beats Fable 5 on coding and knowledge-work evaluations, aiming at enterprises that want everyday AI tools with clearer value for money.
That pricing push comes as Anthropic and OpenAI court more cost-conscious customers while facing cheaper offerings from Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Chinese startups.
Opus 5 also arrives under continued safety scrutiny after Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable 5 releases were briefly blocked by U.S. export controls; the company said it kept working with government agencies before deployment.
Anthropic said Opus 5 still trails Mythos 5 in offensive cybersecurity and biology research, underscoring its positioning as a safer mainstream model rather than the company’s most powerful high-risk system.