Introducing Claude Opus 5AnthropicReleased July 24, 2026

Claude Opus 5

The premier enterprise flagship model for multi-hour autonomous coding, complex system engineering, and vision-heavy agent tasks.

reasoning-llmProprietary API$5.00 / 1M tok (Opus 5 Flagship)Context: 1M (1,000,000 tokens)Arena ELO: 1550

Technical Specifications

Architecture Type
Fifth-Generation Frontier Agentic Transformer
Total Parameters
Fifth-Gen Frontier Scale
Context Window
1M (1,000,000 tokens)
Max Output Tokens
128K (128,000 tokens)
Knowledge Cutoff
May 2026
Supported Modalities
text, code, vision, reasoning
License & Access
Anthropic Commercial Terms

Benchmark Evaluations

Math500
99.1
Mmlu Pro
92.4
Gpqa Diamond
87.1
Swe Bench Verified
86.8
Chatbot Arena ELO
1550

Deep Architectural Overview

Claude Opus 5 delivers a step-change improvement over Claude Opus 4.8, showing massive gains in test-time compute scaling and deep multi-step reasoning. Featuring 1M context, 128k output buffer, and mid-conversation tool dynamic updates, it powers the most sophisticated AI agents in the world.

Strengths & Considerations

Core Strengths
  • World-class agentic coding (86.8% SWE-bench Verified)
  • 1,000,000 token context window and 128k output buffer
  • Supports dynamic mid-conversation tool modifications
  • High-effort adaptive thinking on by default
Known Limitations
  • Moderate latency compared to Sonnet 5, optimized for deep deliberation

Token & API Pricing

Input Tokens (1M)$5.00
Output Tokens (1M)$25.00
Cached Input (1M)$0.5000
Batch API Discount50% Off Standard
Pricing is verified directly against Anthropic's developer documentation and API rate sheets.

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