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Claude Opus 5

Anthropic·

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Overview

Opus-tier Claude flagship for agentic coding, long-horizon tool use and computer use, released as the new top model in the Claude apps and the API. Priced at $5 / $25 per million input/output tokens.

Capabilities and innovations

Agentic codingComputer useExtended thinkingTool useVision inputAPI: claude-opus-5Effort control

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
GPQA Diamond93.43%independent
vals.ai independent evaluation (accessed 2026-07-25).
Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools)52.6%third party
HLE 52,6% no-tools, measured by Artificial Analysis (Adaptive Reasoning, max effort; xhigh gives 52,5%). Anthropic reports no HLE value for Opus 5.
SWE-bench Verified96%vendor
SWE-bench Verified 96,0% (Anthropic self-report, averaged over five trials). vals.ai independent: 97,0%.
SWE-bench Pro79.2%vendor
SWE-bench Pro 79,2% (Anthropic self-reported figure per launch coverage).
MMLU-Pro91.59%independent
vals.ai independent evaluation (accessed 2026-07-25).
Terminal-Bench 2.x84.64%independent
Terminal-Bench 2.1, vals.ai independent evaluation (accessed 2026-07-25).
Terminal-Bench 3.042.7%independent
Terminal-Bench 3.0 42.7% (± 3.1, 95% CI), official leaderboard maintained by the Terminal-Bench team (Stanford / Harbor / Laude Institute), max effort, agent harness: mini-SWE-agent (accessed 2026-09-23). Do not compare against the terminal_bench column: 3.0 is a harder generation on a different scale.
Terminal-Bench 4.053.9%independent
Terminal-Bench 4.0 53.9% (± 3.2, 95% CI), official leaderboard maintained by the Terminal-Bench team (Stanford / Harbor / Laude Institute), xhigh effort, agent harness: Claude Code (accessed 2026-09-23). Vendor-reported: 52.3 (https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1). 4.0 is its own generation and not comparable with the 2.x or 3.0 fields.
MMMU-Pro84.7%third party
MMMU-Pro 84,7%, measured by Artificial Analysis (Adaptive Reasoning, max effort).
ARC-AGI-197.5%independent
ARC-AGI-1 97.5% Semi-Private, verified by ARC Prize (Max effort; High also 97.5), tested 2026-07-24 (accessed 2026-09-23).
ARC-AGI-290.4%independent
ARC-AGI-2 90.4% Semi-Private, verified by ARC Prize (Max effort; High: 88.3), tested 2026-07-24. ARC-AGI-3 (not tracked): 30.2 at High (accessed 2026-09-23).

API pricing

$5 per million input tokens, $25 per million output tokens (USD, provider list price, checked 2026-07-25)

Reliability

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42.1 ()third party

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