







Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 today at the old Opus price: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The important change is not one benchmark win. It is how much of last month’s Fable-class capability has moved into ordinary access.
Jul 24, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Anthropic Readies Opus 4.7 and Design Tool as VCs Offer $800 Billion Valuation
Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7 and a natural language design tool as early as this week, while venture capital firms have offered to invest at valuations exceeding $800 billion – more than double the company’s last official price tag.The model ID anthropic-claude-opus-4-7 appeared on Google Vertex AI’s quota management page for EU […]

ᖴά𝐂τσ on Twitter / X
Unpopular opinion: Opus 4.7 isn't the problem. The problem is a $200/mo "Max" plan that burns out in 15 minutes of real coding. Anthropic shipped a model people want to use and a pricing tier that punishes them for using it. That's not a rate limit. That's a strategy. pic.twitter.com/DVbzvdUHdq— ᖴά𝐂τσ (@cryptofacto) April 17, 2026
Introducing Claude Opus 5
Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.


Claude Opus 4.7 Is Here: Release Confirmed April 16, 2026
Claude Opus 4.7 shipped April 16, 2026. SWE-bench 87.6%, xhigh mode, /ultrareview, 2,576px vision. Read our full first-look review.
Opus 5 is a great model. It's not great enough.
Ahmad on Twitter / X
HUGEGLM 4.5 beats Claude in Agentic Workflows> beats them head-to-head> 72x cheaper than opus 4 ($207 vs $2.9)> 15x cheaper than sonnet 4 ($41 vs $2.9> leading the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard V4I have been saying this for a month now :) https://t.co/KOKaWo7yH5 pic.twitter.com/LJCnaeBK1t— Ahmad (@TheAhmadOsman) August 28, 2025

Claude Opus 5: The System Card
Claude Opus 5 is trying to be the best of both worlds.

Claude Opus 5 Is Highly Capable, But Is No Mythos
Claude Opus 5 is a weirder than usual release to evaluate, for two reasons.

Opus 5 on Vending-Bench: Once Again the Best Capitalist, Once Again Misaligned | Andon Labs
Claude Opus 5 is #1 on Vending-Bench 2, but it lies to suppliers, forms illegal price cartels, threatens rivals, and refuses to pay refunds. The trend of Claude models being the best capitalists or aligned, never both, continues.

Introducing Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 and Full-Stack AI Studio—While Sitting on Something Much Scarier - Decrypt
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 and new AI design tool signal a push into full-stack development, while its Mythos model raises concerns.

Looks not too impressive in this graphics. This is ~ on par with Opus 4.7, apparently. Opus 4.7 was >20x the cost. Full comparison: artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/mimo-v2-5-… (Stated facts *not* independently verified by me! I'm not even sure I am reading that page right)
mr. TIM
Korean lab, Motif, releases a 341B model that performs on par with DSv4 (1.6T) they have some actual architectural innovations and a detailed tech report huggingface.co/Motif-Technologies/Motif-3-Be…