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Claude Opus 5 halves cost, reaches Anthropic’s top tier
Jul 26, 2026SOURCE: frontierbeat.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, intelligence is getting cheaper faster than institutions can price it.
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 hits top coding and knowledge-work scores at roughly half the token cost of its priciest model. The signal is not just cheaper inference; it is the inversion compressing the price of cognition.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.