Claude 5: Everything Anthropic Has Shipped in 2026
The wait for “Claude 5” is over. Anthropic never shipped one monolithic model called Claude 5, so the fifth generation arrived tier by tier instead, and on July 24, 2026 the last gap closed when Claude Opus 5 replaced Opus 4.8 as the flagship. It launched at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per […]
