Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5 With Enhanced Cybersecurity Safeguards and Competitive Pricing
Summary
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a powerful AI model rivaling its flagship Fable 5 with enhanced cybersecurity safeguards, improved coding capabilities, and competitive pricing at $5 input and $25 output per million tokens — half the cost of Fable 5 and undercutting OpenAI's GPT-5.6.
Key Points
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, a new AI model it claims comes close to the capabilities of its flagship Fable 5 model, with significant improvements in complex coding tasks.
- Opus 5 features stronger cybersecurity safeguards than its predecessor, Opus 4.8, following government concerns over Fable 5, and Anthropic confirms it has shared the model with government partners for independent testing.
- Opus 5 is priced the same as Opus 4.8 at $5 input and $25 output per million tokens, making it half the price of Fable 5 and slightly cheaper than OpenAI's GPT-5.6, with new features including a "Fast mode" and automatic fallbacks to lower-tier models.