Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, a new AI model designed for coding, enterprise workflows and agentic tasks that delivers near-frontier performance at half the cost of Claude…

The San Francisco-based lab said the new Claude AI model was well suited for daily office and computer programming tasks.

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.