The new everyday intelligence leader: Opus 5 brings Fable-like judgment to a model people and companies can actually run at scale. It leads early independent intelligence testing, tops Anthropic's knowledge-work and computer-use comparisons, costs half as much as Fable 5, and is broadly available across Claude, cloud platforms, and the API.
GDPval-AA v2 Elo 1861, ARC-AGI-3 30.2%, BrowseComp 90.8%, OSWorld 2.0 70.6%, AutomationBench 26.0%, and 64.7% on tool-assisted Humanity's Last Exam. Artificial Analysis independently scores max effort at 61 and #1 overall. 1M context, 128k output, $5/$25 pricing, and no general-access data-retention requirement.
The crown is provisional because independent testing is less than 48 hours old. Fable 5 still wins some specialist and no-tools evaluations, GPT-5.6 remains the broader consumer ecosystem, and Opus 5 has no native image generation. Max effort is slow and verbose, while Claude's free and paid usage limits still matter.
