Claude and Opus 5 Reveal Pricing and Task Costs on Launch Day
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| Source: HN | Original article
Claude Opus 5 pricing revealed. Launch-day cost-per-task details emerge.
Claude Opus 5 has launched with a pricing structure that promises to deliver frontier-class results at a lower cost. As we reported earlier, Opus 5 arrives with near Fable performance at half the price. The new model is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, identical to Opus 4.8 and exactly half of Fable 5's cost.
This pricing matters because it makes complex, semi-autonomous tasks more accessible to a wider range of users. Opus 5's cost-per-task result is also notable, with the model scoring 43.3 percent on the Frontier-Bench v0.1 agentic terminal coding benchmark, more than double Opus 4.8's score and ahead of Fable 5's.
What to watch next is how users respond to the new pricing and capabilities of Opus 5. With batch API processing offering discounted rates for non-time-sensitive workloads and a fast mode available for double the price, users have flexibility in how they utilize the model. As the market continues to evolve, it will be important to see how Opus 5's performance and pricing impact the adoption of AI solutions for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows.
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