Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 for coding and business workflows
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 is now available and becomes the default model for Claude Max and the strongest option on Claude Pro. The company reports improvements in coding, knowledge work, computer use and long-running agent tasks at the same price as Opus 4.8. These performance claims come from Anthropic and its cited evaluations.
Anthropic positions Opus 5 as a stronger model for coding, knowledge work, computer use and long-running agent tasks. It is the default model for Claude Max and the strongest model available on Claude Pro, according to the company.
The performance figures come from Anthropic and its cited evaluations. A useful buying test is to give competing models the same small set of real tasks, then compare accuracy, supervision time, speed and total cost.
