Claude Opus 5
Analysis Summary
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's flagship model for advanced reasoning, software engineering, and agentic work. It pairs the highest measured intelligence and coding capability in this batch with strong agentic performance, a million-token context window, vision, file input, tool use, and function calling.
That combination suits autonomous coding agents, complex research, long-contract analysis, strategic content, and customer-facing workflows where errors are expensive. The model can hold large codebases or document sets in context while coordinating external actions. Its main limitation is cost, with $5 input and $25 output pricing, so it should not handle undifferentiated bulk traffic.
Adopt Opus 5 for high-stakes client work and complex automation. Route routine drafting and high-volume classification to a cheaper companion model.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
Claude Opus 5 combines frontier reasoning and coding with strong agentic capability, a million-token context, vision, file handling, and tool integration for demanding client workflows.
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DFO Verdict
Claude Opus 5 combines frontier reasoning and coding with strong agentic capability, a million-token context, vision, file handling, and tool integration for demanding client workflows.
How Claude Opus 5 compares
Claude Opus 5 ranks #2 of 425 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #3 of 198 for coding, #7 of 180 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 86% of the models we list. At $5.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 7% 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.
Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $5.00 | $0.005000 |
| Output | $25.00 | $0.025000 |
What would Claude Opus 5 cost your business?
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.
We route routine calls to cheap models and save Claude Opus 5 for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.
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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
How much does Claude Opus 5 cost?
Claude Opus 5 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Claude Opus 5?
Claude Opus 5 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).
Is Claude Opus 5 good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Claude Opus 5 ranks #3 of 198 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Claude Opus 5 do?
Claude Opus 5 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Claude Opus 5?
Claude Opus 5 is developed by Anthropic and was released on July 24, 2026.