Anthropic's New Claude Opus 5 Nearly Matches Flagship Fable 5 at Half the Cost
Anthropic's New Claude Opus 5 Nearly Matches Flagship Fable 5 at Half the CostFriday July 24, 2026 10:43 am PDT by Juli CloverAnthropic today introduced Claude Opus 5, an upgrade to Opus 4.8. Anthropic says Opus 5 was built for daily use, and it offers near Fable 5 performance at half the price. Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable publicly available model.
- ▪Anthropic's New Claude Opus 5 Nearly Matches Flagship Fable 5 at Half the CostFriday July 24, 2026 10:43 am PDT by Juli CloverAnthropic today introduced Claude Opus 5, an upgrade to Opus 4.8.
- ▪Anthropic says Opus 5 was built for daily use, and it offers near Fable 5 performance at half the price.
- ▪Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable publicly available model.
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Anthropic's New Claude Opus 5 Nearly Matches Flagship Fable 5 at Half the CostFriday July 24, 2026 10:43 am PDT by Juli CloverAnthropic today introduced Claude Opus 5, an upgrade to Opus 4.8. Anthropic says Opus 5 was built for daily use, and it offers near Fable 5 performance at half the price. Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable publicly available model. Opus 5 scores higher than Opus 4.8 on multiple benchmarked tasks, including agentic coding, novel problem solving, knowledge work, computer use, and multidisciplinary reasoning. It is a "meaningful improvement" over Opus 4.8 for scientific research, and it can produce better visual outputs. Anthropic says the new model "provides greatly improved performance for the same cost" as Opus 4.8.
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