Claude Opus 5 (batch)
Analysis Summary
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's flagship model for complex reasoning, software engineering, and agentic work. The supplied results place its intelligence, coding, and agentic capability at the top end, while its 1,000,000-token context, vision, image and file input, tool use, and function calling support demanding workflows across long documents and codebases.
For client work, it is a strong lead option for complex coding tasks, multi-step agents, detailed analysis, and content where accuracy and depth matter. The broad input support can consolidate document and visual work into one workflow. Tool use makes it suitable for connected processes, with the usual need to evaluate permissions and execution behavior before deployment.
Pricing is $2.50 per million input tokens and $12.50 per million output tokens. Reserve it for work where its capability can justify the expense, and use a lower-cost tier for routine, high-volume requests.
Assessed September 23, 2026
Editorial notes
Claude Opus 5 combines world-class reasoning and coding with strong agentic capability, vision, tool calling, and a million-token context. Its premium pricing suits high-value client work.
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DFO Verdict
Claude Opus 5 combines world-class reasoning and coding with strong agentic capability, vision, tool calling, and a million-token context. Its premium pricing suits high-value client work.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis data refreshed Sep 30, 2026. Arena ratings from the Sep 25, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control.
How Claude Opus 5 (batch) compares
Claude Opus 5 (batch) ranks #6 of 431 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #3 of 198 for coding, #3 of 181 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 86% of the models we list. At $2.50 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 11% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.50 | $0.002500 |
| Output | $12.50 | $0.012500 |
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Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis..
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Frequently asked questions about Claude Opus 5 (batch)
How much does Claude Opus 5 (batch) cost?
Claude Opus 5 (batch) costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $12.50 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Claude Opus 5 (batch)?
Claude Opus 5 (batch) has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).
Is Claude Opus 5 (batch) good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Claude Opus 5 (batch) ranks #3 of 198 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Claude Opus 5 (batch) do?
Claude Opus 5 (batch) supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Claude Opus 5 (batch)?
Claude Opus 5 (batch) is developed by Anthropic and was released on July 24, 2026.