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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, near Fable 5 at half the price

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Source: Anthropic: Introducing Claude Opus 5

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, which it said comes close to Claude Fable 5’s intelligence at half the price, at $5 and $25 per million input and output tokens, and leads coding and knowledge-work evaluations such as GDPval-AA while trailing Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks.

Why it matters

Teams paying Fable prices for everyday coding and analysis could move to Opus 5 for half the cost.

When
24 Jul 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0176
Who
Anthropic

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Anthropic. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Anthropic

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: Led toAnthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% lower cost than Opus 5

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WTA-N-2026-0176: “Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, near Fable 5 at half the price.” wheresthe.ai, 24 Jul 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/anthropic-claude-opus-5-release-2026-07/ (source: Anthropic: Introducing Claude Opus 5).

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