Claude Opus 5 Tops the Intelligence Index at Half the Cost
1Key Takeaways
- Originally published on AI Tech Connect .
- What you need to know Opus 5 shipped on 24 July 2026 — Anthropic's fourth model release in under two months, after Fable 5, Mythos 5 and Sonnet 5.
- Artificial Analysis puts Opus 5 (maximum effort) at 61 on its Intelligence Index — effectively tied with Fable 5 (60) and just ahead of GPT-5.6 Sol (59).
- It tops the Agentic Index at 55.3, according to Artificial Analysis — the number that matters most if you are shipping….
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