What it is

Claude Opus 5 is an AI model from Anthropic that provides near-frontier intelligence at half the price of Claude Fable 5, featuring customizable effort settings to optimize for either speed/cost or performance.

Business use case

Software engineers, business process automation teams, and scientific researchers can deploy it for end-to-end coding tasks, computer-use automation, bug fixing, and scientific analysis such as organic chemistry structure inference.

Estimated value

Offers higher task performance at a lower cost, achieving more than double the benchmark performance of Opus 4.8 on software tasks and performing near Fable 5 levels at half the cost per task.

Implementation

Requires accessing the model as the default option on Claude Max or Claude Pro, or integrating it via API while configuring the desired effort setting based on task requirements.

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