Capability change announced Jul 24, 2026
Anthropic documents a capability change: “We've launched Claude Opus 5 (claude-opus-5), a step-change improvement over Claude Opus 4.8.”
- Hosting route
- First-party API
- Affected scope
- Not stated in the notice
- Announced
- Jul 24, 2026
- First seen by ModelClock
- Oct 3, 2026
What the provider published
platform.claude.com ↗
We've launched Claude Opus 5 (
claude-opus-5), a step-change improvement over Claude Opus 4.8. Claude Opus 5 supports a 1M token context window (both the default and the maximum), 128k max output tokens, and thinking on by default, at $5 / $25 USD per MTok, the same pricing as Claude Opus 4.8. It's available on the Claude API, Claude in Amazon Bedrock , Claude Platform on AWS , Claude on Google Cloud , and Claude in Microsoft Foundry . See What's new in Claude Opus 5 for new features, behavior changes, and migration guidance, and the models overview for complete specs.On Claude Opus 5, disabling thinking is allowed only at effort
highor below:thinking: {"type": "disabled"}with effortxhighormaxreturns a 400 error, a breaking change from Claude Opus 4.8. See What's new in Claude Opus 5 .
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