Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.5 With Lower Pricing and Superior Coding Skills
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 as its new top-tier AI model, offering state-of-the-art performance in coding, deep research, and agentic workflows. The model operates at a significantly reduced price point of $5 per million input tokens.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 today as its most intelligent and efficient model to date, delivering state-of-the-art performance in software engineering, agentic workflows, and computer use. The new model significantly outperforms previous versions on real-world coding tests while making high-level AI capabilities accessible to a much broader audience through substantially reduced pricing.
Developers and enterprise customers access Opus 4.5 immediately through the Anthropic API, consumer applications, and major cloud platforms at a new price of $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. Early testers report that the model handles ambiguity effortlessly, resolves complex multi-system bugs without hand-holding, and cuts token usage in half compared to earlier iterations.
The launch accompanies major updates across the Claude ecosystem, including enhanced features for the Claude Developer Platform, Claude Code, and dedicated desktop integrations for Excel and Chrome. These platform improvements include better support for longer-running agents and the elimination of conversation limits in the consumer apps, fundamentally changing how users interact with AI for extended projects.