Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 AI model rivals Fable 5 and is cheaper
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, a new AI model that the company claims is more cost-effective and higher-performing than its predecessor, Fable 5. The release targets enterprise customers seeking value while maintaining competitive parity with other major AI developers.
Why it matters
The shift toward cheaper, high-performance AI models reflects a broader industry trend of prioritizing cost-conscious enterprise adoption over experimental, high-cost tools.
Anthropic on Friday announced its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 5, which it said is its best-performing and most cost-effective offering across a number of industry benchmarks.
Opus 5 outperforms the last model that Anthropic released, Claude Fable 5, on coding and knowledge work evaluations, and the company said it's "designed to be used every day," according to a blog post. Opus 5 is also half the price of Fable 5, and will cost users $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Anthropic said Opus 5 is not the state-of-the-art for "risky, dual-use capabilities," like cybersecurity.
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