Opus 5 lands: Fable 5 smarts at half the price
Anthropic's Opus 5 targets GPT-5.6 Sol on coding and agents while undercutting it on output cost.
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5, pitching it as "close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price." It's now the default on Claude Max and the top model on Claude Pro.
The pricing is the story. Opus 5 runs $5 per million input tokens and $25 output — landing right on top of OpenAI's new flagship GPT-5.6 Sol ($5 in / $30 out) but shaving the output rate. Anthropic is aiming squarely at Sol's turf: coding, agentic tasks, and computer use, the exact workloads OpenAI called Sol its "best coding model yet."
The two-month cadence since the last Opus bump holds, and the timing is loaded — Anthropic is reportedly prepping an IPO later this year, and a cheaper frontier model is a clean growth story for investors.
Why it matters: frontier coding intelligence is now a price war, and Anthropic just undercut OpenAI's best model on its home turf.
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Independent coverage
- Anthropic debuts Opus 5 model as company preps for IPO later this year finance.yahoo.com
- OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6 techcrunch.com
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