Fable-5-Grade Intelligence at Last Gen's Price: How Claude Opus 5 Rebuilt "the Opus for Long-Running Agents"
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24. At the unchanged $5/$25 pricing, it delivers performance approaching the publicly top-tier Fable 5 and replaces the default Opus in Claude Code. Here's a rundown of the shifts in pricing, benchmarks, and agent operations—along with the caveats to keep in