--- title: Claude Opus 5 is out and the pricing is the headline... description: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at the same price as Claude Opus 4.8 ($5/M input, $25/M output) despite significant capability improvements. It scores within... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/claude-opus-5-is-out-and-the-pricing-is-the-headline-cheaper-output-than-gpt-5-6-sol-claude-ai-zwz9tcx2s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Claude Opus 5 is out and the pricing is the headline cheaper output than GPT-5.6 Sol #claude #ai | daily.dev og:description: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at the same price as Claude Opus 4.8 ($5/M input, $25/M output) despite significant capability improvements. It scores within... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/claude-opus-5-is-out-and-the-pricing-is-the-headline-cheaper-output-than-gpt-5-6-sol-claude-ai-zwz9tcx2s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZWz9TCX2s.png og:image:alt: Claude Opus 5 is out and the pricing is the headline cheaper output than GPT-5.6 Sol #claude #ai og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Claude Opus 5 is out and the pricing is the headline cheaper output than GPT-5.6 Sol #claude #ai **[Code with Beto](https://daily.dev/sources/codewithbeto)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at the same price as Claude Opus 4.8 ($5/M input, $25/M output) despite significant capability improvements. It scores within 0.5% of Claude's top-tier model on Cursor Bench at half the cost per task. Compared to GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 5 output is cheaper ($25 vs $30 per million tokens). A fast mode offering 2.5x speed is also available, and the model is live in Claude Code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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