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Claude Opus 5

A thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.

A specific Anthropic Claude Opus 5 model release, referenced in the supplied 2026 evidence context as an agentic, multimodal-capable model used through Claude Code and Codex.

Pricing

Official site · Sep 23, 2026, 9:13 AM
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$25.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.50

All prices are USD per million tokens (MTok). Official table lists 5m cache writes at $6.25/MTok, 1h cache writes at $10/MTok, and cache hits and refreshes at $0.50/MTok.

Anthropic's official pricing documentation explicitly lists Claude Opus 5 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. It also lists cache hits and refreshes at $0.50 per million tokens, with cache writes at $6.25 per million tokens for 5-minute writes and $10 per million tokens for 1-hour writes.

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Model Intelligence

Arena ranking
51
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
50.7
Coding Index
78
GPQA
0.93
HLE
0.55
SciCode
0.56
LCR
0.79

Recent stories

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workflowSECONDARY2026-08-01
Meng To opens a prompt-built Three.js bookshelf repo with code and prompts

Meng To released code and prompts for a scrolling bookshelf demo refined through many Codex prompts. Karpathy separately used Claude Opus 5 to turn the opening of LOTR into a 5,500-line Three.js render.

workflowSECONDARY2026-07-30
Opus 5 builds single-file Three.js browser game prototypes through Codex

Meng To used Opus 5 through Codex and Claude Code to rebuild Sakura Crossing as a single-file Three.js scene. Other demos show one-prompt Fallout-style RPGs and a Pool Rooms survival-horror level.

workflowSECONDARY2026-07-28
Opus 5 reportedly builds playable Godot car-soccer prototype in 1.5 days

LLMJunky demoed Slopet League, a Rocket League-style prototype in Godot, saying Opus 5 made the map, physics, effects, and animations. He says GPT 5.6 Sol made car meshes and the build took about 1.5 days.

workflowPRIMARY2026-07-26
AI agents generate playable 3D game demos in Blender and Godot

New Opus 5, Codex, and Fable demos showed agents creating 3D worlds, Blender assets, Godot ports, and one-shot games. Pushback focused on whether the clips become games worth playing.

workflowPRIMARY2026-07-26
Designers release reusable prompt templates for AI front-end agents

Shared resources included design-skills repos, a UI visual dictionary, CRM table tokens, and Claude Opus 5 website prompts. The reusable context can speed front-end generation but does not replace product-specific design choices.

releaseSECONDARY2026-07-24
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 in Claude Code and the API

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 for Claude Code and the API with high-effort defaults, fast mode, migration tooling, mid-conversation tool changes, and routing fallback. The model scored 43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1.

workflowPRIMARY2026-07-24
Coding agents build playable browser games in creator demos

Creators posted demos where Opus 5 built browser 3D games, Codex Sites produced a Three.js game, and Grok 4.5 helped redesign a Steam card game. Some workflows now pair video concepts with Claude Code, but the evidence is demo-based.

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