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Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 doubles performance at same price point

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Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, which offers performance improvements over its predecessor, Opus 4.8. The new model maintains the same pricing as Opus 4.8 while reportedly achieving more than double the score on certain benchmarks. This release comes shortly after OpenAI's cheapest tier model surpassed Opus 4.8 in performance at a significantly lower cost. AI

IMPACT Sets new performance benchmarks for large language models, potentially influencing pricing and capability expectations across the industry.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 doubles performance at same price point

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  1. Medium — Claude tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Mehmet Özel ·

    Claude Opus 5 costs exactly what Opus 4.8 cost and scores more than twice as high

    <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/data-science-collective/claude-opus-5-costs-exactly-what-opus-4-8-cost-and-scores-more-than-twice-as-high-ac8245fb9582?source=rss------claude-5"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/16…

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