Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5 at Half Fable 5 Price
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- Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 today, positioning it as the new default model on Claude Max
- The company claims Claude Opus 5 comes close to Claude Fable 5's frontier intelligence at half the price
- Fortune highlights a feature letting users toggle between cost and capability
- Yahoo Finance notes the launch lands as Anthropic prepares for an IPO later this year
- An X post claims Opus 5 scored 30.2% on ARC-AGI-3 at high effort, versus 7.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol and 1.5% for Opus 4.8
- Lenny's Newsletter titled its review "this model is brilliant (but annoying)"
- Coverage spanned The Verge, Axios, Bloomberg, CNBC, VentureBeat, Fast Company, and more
Why it matters: Anthropic is positioning Opus 5 as a cheaper, near-frontier model for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows, with Fortune highlighting a feature letting users toggle between cost and capability. The launch lands as Yahoo Finance reports the company is preparing for an IPO later this year.
