Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s latest Opus-tier model, announced as available in July 2026. The page describes it as a thoughtful and proactive model designed for everyday use, long-running agents, coding, and other professional knowledge-work tasks.
Anthropic positions Opus 5 as more efficient than earlier models at the same cost as Opus 4.8, with results that improve across effort settings. The announcement also says it is the new default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro, while the pricing page places Opus within Claude’s broader Free, Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise, and API plan structure.