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Claude Opus 5

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Status
released
Released
24 July 2026
Context
1M tokens
Price / 1M
$5.00 in, $25.00 out
Mentions
7
Threads
11

What is Claude Opus 5?

Claude Opus 5 is a model from Anthropic, built in the US. It's out, and you can call it today.

When did Claude Opus 5 come out?

Anthropic released it on 24 July 2026. That date comes from the lab's own docs.

The tracker first logged the name on 24 July 2026 and last saw it on 3 September 2026.

What does it cost, and how much context does it hold?

LabAnthropic
Built inUS
Statusreleased
API model idclaude-opus-5
Released24 July 2026
Context window1M tokens
Max output128K tokens
Input, per 1M tokens$5.00
Output, per 1M tokens$25.00

List prices per million tokens, read off the lab's own docs. Caching, batching and volume deals all cut the real number, so treat this as the ceiling. Check the source before you budget against it.

How does it compare to Anthropic's other models?

ModelStatusDateContextIn / 1MOut / 1M
Claude Opus 5released24 July 20261M tokens$5.00$25.00
Claude Mythos 5.1released1 September 20261M tokens$10.00$50.00
Claude Fable 5.1released1 September 20261M tokens$10.00$50.00
Claude Sonnet 5released30 June 20261M tokens$2.00$10.00
Claude Fable 5released9 June 20261M tokens$10.00$50.00
Claude Opus 4.5released24 November 2025200K tokens$5.00$25.00
Claude Haiku 4.5released15 October 2025200K tokens$1.00$5.00
Claude Sonnet 4.5released29 September 2025200K tokens$3.00$15.00
Claude Opus 5.1rumoured
Claude Opus 4.1deprecated$15.00$75.00

A dash means the lab hasn't published that number for that model.

What are people discussing about Claude Opus 5?

We tracked 11 public discussions naming Claude Opus 5 across r/ClaudeAI, r/ClaudeCode and r/OpenAI between 6 August 2026 and 2 September 2026.

The subject that came up most was benchmark results, then agents and tool use. A discussion can cover several, so these add up to more than 11.

What people are discussingThreads
benchmark results2
agents and tool use1
using it to write code1
refusals and safety behaviour1

Every mention we've logged

Every tracked post, release, changelog entry or incident whose title or summary names Claude Opus 5. Newest first, each one linking to where the lab published it.

Thu 03 Sep 2026

1
Anthropicincident claude-fable-5-1 claude-mythos-5-1 claude-opus-5anthropic-status

Elevated errors for multiple models

Sep 3 , 16:23 UTC Resolved - The issue affecting Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5 has been resolved. Impact has ended as of 9:16 PT / 16:16 UTC. Sep 3 , 16:06 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been deployed for Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5 and we are monitoring for recovery. Sep 3 , 15:25 UTC Update - The only affected models right now are Opus 4.8 and Opus 5. The rest of the models have recovered to baseline error rate. Sep 3 , 14:49 UTC Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. Sep 3 , 13:50 UTC Update - An exhaustive list of…

Mon 24 Aug 2026

1
Anthropicincident claude-opus-5anthropic-status

Elevated errors for multiple models

Aug 24 , 08:30 UTC Resolved - This issue has been resolved. From 9:50pm PT / 04:50 UTC through 00:36am PT / 07:36 UTC, users saw elevated errors on requests to Claude models, including Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5. Aug 24 , 07:47 UTC Update - At this time, we have seen errors stabilize on Opus 5 and Fable 5, and are working to fully resolve success rates on all affected models. We will provide an update as soon as possible. Aug 24 , 06:42 UTC Update - We are continuing to work to resolve issues causing elevated requests on multiple models. We will provide an update as soon as possible. Aug 24…

Wed 19 Aug 2026

1
Anthropicincident claude-haiku-4-5 claude-opus-5anthropic-status

Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5

Aug 19 , 11:02 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Aug 19 , 10:33 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Aug 19 , 09:42 UTC Identified - We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

Tue 18 Aug 2026

1
Anthropicincident claude-fable-5 claude-haiku-4-5 claude-opus-5 claude-sonnet-5anthropic-status

Degraded performance for multiple models

Aug 18 , 19:01 UTC Resolved - The issue affecting Claude Opus 5 has been resolved. Impact occurred from 16:11 to 18:23 UTC. Aug 18 , 18:26 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Aug 18 , 17:12 UTC Update - We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 5. We will provide an update as soon as possible. Aug 18 , 16:20 UTC Update - We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Haiku 4.5, and other Claude models. We will provide an update as soon as possible. Aug…

Mon 17 Aug 2026

1
Anthropicincident claude-opus-5 claude-sonnet-5anthropic-status

Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5

Aug 17 , 15:29 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Aug 17 , 14:39 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Aug 17 , 14:25 UTC Update - Claude Opus 5 is operational. Claude Sonnet 5 is degraded. We are investigating. Aug 17 , 13:56 UTC Investigating - We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 5. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

Wed 05 Aug 2026

1
Anthropicincident claude-opus-5anthropic-status

Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5

Aug 5 , 14:34 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Aug 5 , 13:51 UTC Identified - We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 5 and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

Fri 24 Jul 2026

1
Anthropicpost claude-opus-5anthropic-news

Introducing Claude Opus 5

Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.

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