Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, replacing Claude Opus 4.8 at the same price of $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The model enables thinking by default (whereas Opus 4.8 required manual activation), supports up to 1 million token context with 128k output on the standard API, and requires developers to remove verification prompts from existing code since the model now self-verifies. Developers must update API calls to handle the new thinking behavior or explicitly disable it, and they can reduce prompt cache minimums from 1,024 to 512 tokens.