Anthropic says Opus 5 can nearly match its top-performing model for half the price
News AI Anthropic says Opus 5 can nearly match its top-performing model for half the price It also has less restrictive safeguards than the Fable model. By Igor Bonifacic July 24, 2026 1:00 pm EST Antrhopic Just as it was starting to feel like Anthropic had begun to neglect its Opus model, the company has released a new version of its one-time flagship LLM. According to Anthropic, Opus 5 offers capabilities that come close to Fable 5, Anthropic's most powerful commercially available model, at half the price.
- ▪News AI Anthropic says Opus 5 can nearly match its top-performing model for half the price It also has less restrictive safeguards than the Fable model.
- ▪By Igor Bonifacic July 24, 2026 1:00 pm EST Antrhopic Just as it was starting to feel like Anthropic had begun to neglect its Opus model, the company has released a new version of its one-time flagship LLM.
- ▪According to Anthropic, Opus 5 offers capabilities that come close to Fable 5, Anthropic's most powerful commercially available model, at half the price.
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News AI Anthropic says Opus 5 can nearly match its top-performing model for half the price It also has less restrictive safeguards than the Fable model. By Igor Bonifacic July 24, 2026 1:00 pm EST Antrhopic Just as it was starting to feel like Anthropic had begun to neglect its Opus model, the company has released a new version of its one-time flagship LLM. According to Anthropic, Opus 5 offers capabilities that come close to Fable 5, Anthropic's most powerful commercially available model, at half the price. More on pricing in a bit, but as for performance, Anthropic says Opus 5 is better at knowledge work than any of its past models. It's also substantially better at complex coding tasks than Opus 4.8.
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