Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, maintaining the same pricing as Opus 4.8 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, which is half the cost of Claude Fable 5. The company emphasizes cost per completed task rather than per token, highlighting improved efficiency and performance at a lower price point. This move is seen as a response to market pressures, with competitors like Kimi K3 and routing technologies from Cursor and Meta also focusing on cost-effectiveness. AI
IMPACT This release intensifies competition on cost-efficiency, potentially lowering operational expenses for businesses utilizing advanced AI models.
RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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