Anthropic officially released its new AI model, Claude Opus 5, last Friday, offering intelligence comparable to the top-tier Claude Fable 5 at half the price for enterprises facing rising AI token costs. Opus 5 is now the default model for the Claude platform, delivering performance improvements over its predecessor, Opus 4.8, at the same cost.
Anthropic is aggressively cutting inference costs for top-tier models, increasing competitive pressure on other frontier AI labs to match price-performance.