Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort)
- Released
- Jul 24, 2026
- Tracked since
- 2026-07-25
Intelligence index39.4Ranks 52 of 664 models with this metric
Coding index66.9Ranks 62 of 259 models with this metric
Agentic index36Ranks 54 of 156 models with this metric
Capability profile
5 axes vs. site averageClaude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort)
Site average
Pricing
per 1M tokens- Input
- $5.00
- Output
- $25.00
- Cache read
- $0.500
- Cache write
- $6.25
Performance
- Output throughput
- 60 tokens/sec
- Time to first token
- 2.81s
- First answer token
- 2.81s
- End-to-end response
- 11.20s
History
7Intelligence index
50.6→39.4
Output
Unchanged across 62 days of records
Output throughput
55→60
Cheaper at this level
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