GoKawiilAnthropic on Friday announced its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 5, which it said is its best-performing and most cost-effective offering across a number of industry benchmarks.
Opus 5 outperforms the last model that Anthropic released, Claude Fable 5, on coding and knowledge work evaluations, and the company said it's "designed to be used every day," according to a blog post. Opus 5 is also half the price of Fable 5, and will cost users $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Anthropic said Opus 5 is not the state-of-the-art for "risky, dual-use capabilities," like cybersecurity.
The model launch comes as Anthropic and its chief rival, OpenAI, have been working to appease a more cost-conscious customer base, where enterprises are less inclined to experiment with pricey models without a clear picture of the return on their investment. Anthropic is also facing pressure from competitors that tout cheaper offerings, including Microsoft , Amazon , Google , and a number of Chinese startups.
"Enterprises, in our feedback and with our customer base, are looking for value," Dianne Penn, Anthropic's head of product management for research, told CNBC in an interview. "If it's a cheaper model or a cheaper offering, but it's not accomplishing a similar level of quality, it's actually not useful."