Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8 (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Opus 5, priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, matching Opus 4.8, enhances coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use. According to ZDNET, this new version targets coding, knowledge work, and agent workflows. Anthropic states that Opus 5 utilizes fewer tokens to achieve similar quality, offering improvements in efficiency for various applications.