Anthropic Claude Opus 5: New AI power at an affordable price

The Anthropic company has officially presented its new flagship model of artificial intelligence – Claude Opus 5. The novelty is positioned as the most powerful solution in the Claude line, optimized for complex intellectual tasks, programming and data analytics.

What is Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 is a new generation model that, according to the developers, achieves a level of performance comparable to the Claude Fable 5 model, while having twice the lower cost. Key capabilities of the model include software creation, code debugging, and autonomous development of data processing systems without human intervention. The model also showed significant progress in scientific disciplines, including biology and chemistry.

Key Features and Security

Claude Opus 5 is positioned as a model itself Despite the expanded functionality, the company has kept strict restrictions for risky scenarios: AI is blocked for creating malware and conducting cyber attack However, the model allows analysis of the source code for security purposes.

An important difference between Opus 5 and Fable 5 is the lack of a 30-day data retention policy, which increases user privacy. The new model’s security classifiers are triggered about 85% less often than in the previous version, and the implementation of the “Automatic fallback” system ensures that API users receive a response even when the protection is triggered, sending the request to a less demanding model.

Price and availability

The model is already available for users of the Claude Pro and Claude Max tariff plans. The pricing policy is much more profitable than the previous offers:

• Price for 1 million incoming tokens: $5.
• Price for 1 million output tokens: $25.

For comparison, the cost of Claude Fable 5 is $10 for 1 million incoming tokens and $50 for 1 million outgoing tokens. Converting the indicated price to other currencies: the cost of Opus 5 is equivalent to $5 ($5 USD, which is 4.64 EUR or 206.45 UAH) for incoming tokens and $25 ($25 USD, which is 23.19 EUR or 1032.25 UAH) for outgoing tokens.

Should Opus 5 be chosen

Claude Opus 5 will be the ideal choice for developers and researchers who need maximum computing power at an optimized price. With advanced automation capabilities and more flexible security protocols, it surpasses the previous version of Opus 4.8, while maintaining efficiencies not available in other specialized solutions.