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Claude Opus 5: Pricing, Specs, and What Changed
Claude Opus 5 is here: model ID claude-opus-5, $5/$25 per million tokens, 1M context, and thinking on by default. What shipped and what breaks migrating from Opus 4.8.
Claude Opus 5 is here: model ID claude-opus-5, $5/$25 per million tokens, 1M context, and thinking on by default. What shipped and what breaks migrating from Opus 4.8.
A plain-English history of every Claude Opus version, from Claude 3 Opus to the Opus 4.8 flagship — what each release changed, and how to find the latest.
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's flagship model for hard reasoning and agentic coding: the benchmarks, $5/$25 pricing, 1M context, and when to pick it over Sonnet.