Claude's new Claude Opus 5, half the price but closest to Fable

Claude's new Claude Opus 5, half the price but closest to Fable In the race for artificial intelligence, Anthropic has introduced its new Claude Opus 5, which the company is calling its most powerful Opus model for complex everyday tasks, programming, research and office use. The company says that it comes close to the performance of its more powerful Claude Fable 5, but can complete many tasks for about half the cost. The highlight of the new Claude Opus 5 is not only more intelligence, but also the ability to complete the task better. According to Anthropic, the model is better than ever at rechecking its work, correcting it when it finds an error, and continuing to work on a difficult problem until it gets a satisfactory result. The company has described it as particularly strong in programming. In some tests, the Claude Opus 5 gave better results than other leading models, while in one test its performance was very close to the powerful Claude Fable 5 but the cost to complete the task was almost half. Anthropic says the new model has also shown significant improvements over its predecessor, Claude Opus 4.8. Claude Opus 5 has also been made more autonomous in office and business tasks. It can understand complex problems and work in several stages, change its approach if necessary, and even check its own errors instead of stopping at the first result. In one of the company's examples, the model solved a difficult programming problem by finding the root cause instead of just fixing the apparent error. Improvements have also been claimed in scientific research. According to Anthropic, Claude Opus 5 gave better results than Claude Opus 4.8 in several tests related to biology, organic chemistry and proteins. However, the company has also clarified that it still has some limitations in highly complex and long-term automated scientific research. Regarding safety, Anthropic says that Claude Opus 5 is among its most secure and instruction-compliant models to date. In cybersecurity, it can help find software vulnerabilities, but there are stricter restrictions on the ability to exploit those vulnerabilities for malicious attacks. In terms of price, Claude Opus 5 is available for $5 for one million Input Tokens and $25 for one million Output Tokens, which is the same price as Claude Opus 4.8. There is also a high-speed mode that provides about two and a half times the speed, but it costs twice as much as the base rate. Claude Opus 5 is now available for general users. It has been made the new base model in Claude Max, while in Claude Pro it is being offered as the most powerful model available. Developers can also use it via the Claude API. Overall, with Claude Opus 5, Anthropic is not just trying to create the most powerful AI, but also to create a better balance between intelligence, price, and everyday use. If the company's projected results hold up in real-world use, it could become a key model for users who want high-end AI capabilities but don't want to use the most expensive flagship model for every task. Source: Anthropic's official announcement "Introducing Claude Opus 5", July 24, 2026. This article was posted on the AI World Facebook page #AiKiDuniya, #ClaudeOpus5, #ClaudeAI, #Anthropic, #ArtificialIntelligence, #AI