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The Claude 5 pricing era
Anthropic has held Opus at US$5/US$25 across five straight releases while moving the fight to cost-per-task. We track each move and price it against the field.
14 Aug 2026 · Latest
The Sonnet 5 Deadline Was Cancelled. We Had It in Our Calculators.
Anthropic made Sonnet 5's US$2 / US$10 permanent on 10 August and withdrew the 1 September rise. Our July comparison said otherwise, and so did our price tools until this morning -...
25 Jul 2026 Claude Opus 5 Arrives at Half Fable 5’s Price — We Ran the Numbers on 11 Frontier ModelsAnthropic’s new flagship lands at exactly half Fable 5’s per-token price, unchanged from Opus 4.8. We computed blended costs across 11 frontier models — and found two details the l...