Claude Opus 5 Launch: What’s New, Pricing and Benchmarks
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026. If you blinked, you missed it, because this is the fourth Claude 5 model the company has pushed out in under two months.
Here is the short version. Opus 5 gets close to the intelligence of Claude Fable 5, Anthropic's most capable publicly available model, and it does it at half the token price. It is now the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model you can reach on Claude Pro.
That is the headline everyone ran with. The more interesting story is sitting in the settings menu and the pricing page, and that is what we are going to dig into.
Claude Opus 5 at a glanceReleased: July 24, 2026
API model string: claude-opus-5
Price: $5 per million input tokens, $25 per million output tokens
Same price as: Opus 4.8, the model it replaces...









