Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with a lower frontier-model price point

Claude Opus 5 is available through Anthropic’s API and products at US$5 per million input tokens and US$25 per million output tokens. Anthropic also offers a faster mode at approximately 2.5 times speed and twice the standard price, plus beta features for mid-conversation tool changes and automatic fallback.

Why it matters: Lower frontier-model pricing affects routing and unit economics for coding and agent workflows. Vendor benchmark and safety claims require independent reproduction on each organisation’s tasks.