# Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 Targets Frontier Coding at Half the Prior Opus Price

The company reports 79.2 percent on SWE-bench Pro and says the model roughly doubles Opus 4.8 on a software-engineering benchmark at a lower cost per task.

- Published: 2026-08-01T05:44:51.300Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-01/anthropic-s-claude-opus-5-targets-frontier-coding-at-half-th
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
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- Sources: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5), [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/24/meet-the-new-claude-opus-5-frontier-class-agentic-coding-and-computer-use-at-unchanged-opus-pricing/)

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, released July 24, is positioned as a major advance for long-running agents and coding. The company reports 79.2 percent on SWE-bench Pro and says the model more than doubles the score of Opus 4.8 on Frontier-Bench…

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