Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's advanced Claude model for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, with a 1M-token context window, adaptive thinking, and strong long-horizon task behavior.
Newer version: Claude Opus 5.5
Provider
Anthropic
Model family
Anthropic Claude
Multimodal LLM
Cost tier
Opus
Status
Current
Why teams choose it
Use for difficult multi-file coding
code review, and long-running enterprise agent work where Sonnet 5 is not enough.
Anthropic positions Opus 5 below Fable 5 for highest capability
but above older Opus 4.x rows for complex agentic work.
Tradeoffs to know
- More expensive than Sonnet 5; route routine production traffic to Sonnet or Haiku when quality holds.
- Set effort deliberately to manage token use and latency.
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Technical specs
- Inputs
- text, image
- Outputs
- text
- License
- Proprietary API
- Capabilities
- agentic coding
- reasoning
- vision
- tool use
- long context
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Claude Opus 5 FAQ
What is Claude Opus 5?
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's advanced Claude model for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, with a 1M-token context window, adaptive thinking, and strong long-horizon task behavior.
When does Claude Opus 5 fit best?
Complex agentic coding
What should teams watch out for with Claude Opus 5?
More expensive than Sonnet 5; route routine production traffic to Sonnet or Haiku when quality holds.
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