Anthropic made Claude Opus 5 the default flagship on Jul 24 2026. Official list price is $5 input and $25 output per million tokens with a 1M-token window. On CompareLLM that row is a dated snapshot, not a claim we reran SWE-bench in-house. Use it as the Claude side of “claude vs gpt benchmark” until a later SKU outranks it on preference Elo.
What the SKU actually is
Opus 5 sits above Sonnet 5 and below Fable 5 on the invoice. Computer-use and X-High reasoning tasks are the primary use cases. If you only need a chat widget, this is the wrong default — look at Haiku 4.5 or Gemini Flash first. If you need the current Anthropic crown versus OpenAI, open Opus 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol.
Empirical Evaluation & Architectural Analysis
Empirical evaluations recorded across the CompareLLM Leaderboard highlight how parameter scaling and inference optimization impact production throughput and cost-per-token economics. Reference the interactive scorecard above for verified snapshots or inspect the dedicated claude-opus-5 dossier.
How we will update the cells
Daily ingest overwrites seed Elo, SWE-bench, and list price when OpenRouter, Arena, LiveBench, or official SWE-bench JSON match an alias. Until then the cell source is seed-bootstrap. Blank cells stay blank.
Strategic Deployment Recommendation
- Production Workloads: For enterprise workloads requiring strict reliability, cross-reference Top Coding LLMs and Cheapest High-Quality LLMs.
- Direct Pair Comparison: Explore the live pairwise breakdown at /compare/claude-opus-5-vs-gpt-5-6-sol.
- Architectural Stacks: Recommended architectural configurations can be evaluated on the CompareLLM Stack Engine.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this an CompareLLM lab test score? No. Linked model dossiers and compare showdowns reflect dated snapshots gathered from named public evaluation benchmarks. Seed catalog entries remain transparently timestamped until daily ingest updates them.
Where can I see live comparisons for this model? View the showdown at /compare/claude-opus-5-vs-gpt-5-6-sol.
What primary search query does this briefing answer? claude opus 5 benchmark.