Anthropic's frontier Claude model — deep reasoning, agentic coding, vision, and a 1M-token context, positioned near Fable 5 intelligence at half the cost. A text-output model, not an image, audio, or video generator.
Last verified · 2026-07-24 · by Moe Ameen
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's flagship Claude model, released on July 24, 2026 (API model ID `claude-opus-5`). Anthropic frames it as a step-change over Claude Opus 4.8 rather than an incremental bump, with the largest gains in deep reasoning, agentic and long-horizon tasks, and test-time compute scaling. The headline positioning is efficiency: Anthropic says it delivers frontier intelligence approaching Claude Fable 5 at roughly half the cost, and it became the default model for Claude Max and the strongest model available to Claude Pro users.
On specs, Opus 5 has a 1M-token context window (both the default and the maximum) with 128k max output tokens, and thinking is on by default — the model decides how much to reason per turn, controlled by an effort ladder that runs low, medium, high, xhigh, and max. Pricing is $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, unchanged from Opus 4.8; a Fast mode research preview on the Claude API is priced higher ($10 in / $50 out). It's available on the Claude API plus Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry. Anthropic calls out strengths in agentic coding, code review and bug-finding, office and document tasks (multi-sheet spreadsheets, slide decks), long-context work, and multi-agent coordination.
Be precise about what kind of model this is, because the "multimodal" label gets stretched. Opus 5 is multimodal on the input side — its vision reads charts, documents, diagrams, and UI screenshots and can help replicate front-end visuals — but its output is text. It does not generate images, synthesize voice or audio, or render video. For a content creator, that's the important boundary: Opus 5 is the best writing-and-reasoning brain you can rent, and it will draft your scripts, outlines, captions, and articles brilliantly — but it produces words, not the pixels, audio, or published posts a content operation needs. Verify current specs and pricing against Anthropic's own docs before relying on any figure; models move fast.
Opus 5 and Kompozy split cleanly along the line between drafting and production. Opus 5 is a text-output brain: give it a source and it writes the script, the outline, the captions, the article. What it cannot do — by design — is turn those words into a face-locked avatar video, a brand-exact carousel, a quote graphic, or a scheduled post on eight social platforms. That second half is the entire job of a content engine, and it's what Kompozy is. The neat part is that Kompozy already runs this class of model under the hood: its Text Posts, Blog Articles, and Email Newsletters are generated by Claude and OpenAI, governed by your Persona Brief and banned-word filters, and on the Founding tier you can bring your own key — so the same Opus 5 intelligence powers the copy inside a pipeline that also makes the media and publishes it.
Concretely: take an idea or a long source into Kompozy and it drafts the copy with a frontier model, then generates the formats Opus 5 can't — Persona Shorts and Persona HeyGen avatar video with a consistent face and voice, Clipped Shorts from long footage, Carousel Posts rendered pixel-exact via HyperFrames, Photo Posts, Infographics, and Quote Graphics — all in one voice. Then Autopilot and a per-post review pipeline caption, reframe to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9, schedule, and publish the batch across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Pinterest, and Threads plus a blog and Mailchimp. If you prefer to draft in the Claude app or via the API first, paste that output into Kompozy as your source and let it produce and distribute. Opus 5 writes; Kompozy makes it real and ships it everywhere.
No. Claude Opus 5 is multimodal on the input side — its vision reads charts, documents, diagrams, and screenshots — but its output is text. It does not generate images, synthesize audio or voice, or render video. To turn Opus 5's scripts and copy into avatar video, carousels, images, and published posts, you pair it with a generation-and-publishing engine like Kompozy.
Text and reasoning outputs: video scripts and hooks, long blog drafts, newsletter copy, batches of platform-native captions, content calendars and repurposing plans in spreadsheets, and post ideas pulled from a document or screenshot via its vision. It writes the words; it doesn't produce the media or publish it.
Anthropic prices Claude Opus 5 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens on the API — unchanged from Opus 4.8 — with a higher-priced Fast mode research preview ($10 in / $50 out) on the Claude API. It's also the default model for Claude Max subscribers and the strongest model for Claude Pro. Confirm current pricing on Anthropic's site.
Claude Opus 5 has a 1M-token context window, which is both the default and the maximum, with 128k max output tokens. That lets it hold a large source — a long transcript, a set of documents — in a single pass, useful when you feed it raw material to draft content from.
Kompozy's Text Posts, Blog Articles, and Email Newsletters are generated by Claude and OpenAI models governed by your Persona Brief, and the Founding tier supports bring-your-own-key — so the same frontier Claude intelligence drafts your copy inside a pipeline that also generates persona video, carousels, and images and publishes across nine platforms.