Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, approaching Fable 5 at half the price
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, replacing Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship with unchanged pricing at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. Perplexity evaluated it against six models on WANDR, finding it outperformed all but Fable 5 while being 57% cheaper.
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