Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s Opus-tier model for coding, long-running agents, research, and professional knowledge work across Claude plans.
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.
The announcement positions Opus 5 as a strong model for coding and professional work, with state-of-the-art results on Frontier-Bench v0.1 and strong results on CursorBench 3.2 and AA Coding Agent Index-related evaluations.
Anthropic says customers can use effort settings to optimize for intelligence or conserve tokens for faster and cheaper results, and that Opus 5 is more efficient than other models at everyday use.
The model is described as much stronger at verifying its work and iterating carefully until it succeeds, with examples focused on debugging, root-cause analysis, and multi-step completion.
The page highlights gains on knowledge-work and problem-solving benchmarks such as ARC-AGI 3, Zapier AutomationBench, OSWorld 2.0, GDPval-AA v2, HLE, AutomationBench, and DeepSearchQA.
Anthropic says Opus 5 improves on life-science evaluations covering structural biology, organic chemistry, and bioinformatics, including specific gains on molecular-structure inference and protein-related tasks.
The announcement says Opus 5 can produce stronger visual outputs, including an aerodynamic flow visualization and a simplified interactive cell illustration.
Use Opus 5 for coding tasks where the model needs to debug, reconstruct behavior, or carry a project through to a working result. The announcement’s examples include root-cause analysis, a FreeCAD reconstruction task, and difficult software fixes.
Use it for multi-step knowledge work that benefits from checking assumptions and staying on task through long runs. Anthropic highlights business-task automation, analytical work, and other professional workflows where careful iteration matters.
Use it for research-oriented work in areas such as structural biology, organic chemistry, bioinformatics, and related life-science analysis. The page specifically calls out stronger performance on molecular-structure inference and protein-related tasks.
Use it when a task needs computer-use or browser-like interaction rather than only text generation. The source points to OSWorld 2.0 and other computer-use benchmarks, plus examples of end-to-end business tasks.
Use it for visual explanation tasks that involve producing or improving diagrams and interactive illustrations. Anthropic cites stronger generated visuals, including a wind-tunnel visualization and a simplified cell illustration.
Claude Opus 5 is presented on Anthropic’s Claude plans, and the pricing page shows it as the Opus tier model. On the pricing page, Opus is included in Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plan comparisons, with the strongest access on higher tiers such as Max.
The source describes Opus 5 as the new default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro. The pricing page also shows Claude’s web, mobile, and desktop apps, with additional features varying by plan.
The announcement emphasizes agentic coding, knowledge work, research, and computer-use workflows. It also notes stronger visual outputs, but the page does not provide a separate product setup flow or connector list specific to Opus 5.
The announcement says Opus 5 is more efficient than other models and can be tuned with effort settings to balance intelligence against token use, speed, and cost. It also states that it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks.
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