Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic
SWE-2

SWE-2

Cognition
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About

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s advanced everyday AI model built for coding, knowledge work, problem-solving, visual outputs, and production AI workflows. The model delivers stronger performance than Opus 4.8 at the same base price and is positioned as a cost-effective alternative close to Claude Fable 5 frontier intelligence. Claude Opus 5 supports configurable effort settings so users can optimize for intelligence, speed, or token efficiency. It performs especially well on software engineering, automation, computer use, scientific research, and knowledge work evaluations. The model is available on Claude Max, Claude Pro, Claude API, Claude Code, and other Claude platforms, with Fast mode available at a higher price. Built for developers, researchers, enterprises, and everyday Claude users, Claude Opus 5 helps teams complete complex tasks with stronger verification, careful iteration, and practical cost efficiency.

About

SWE-2 is Cognition’s advanced coding model designed to improve software engineering performance while reducing the cost of agentic coding workflows. The model is post-trained from Kimi K3 and uses reinforcement learning to optimize multiple reasoning-effort levels within a single training run. SWE-2 is designed to explore codebases more selectively, begin implementation sooner, and complete tasks with fewer redundant reads and reasoning steps than earlier Cognition models. Its capabilities include code generation, debugging, test creation, verification, repository analysis, and complex terminal-based software engineering tasks. The model also emphasizes stronger engineering judgment, end-to-end test coverage, instruction following, and evidence-based verification of user assumptions. SWE-2 is available through Devin Desktop and Devin CLI, with broader rollout planned across Devin Web and Fusion.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Developers, AI agent builders, software engineering teams, researchers, enterprise AI teams, knowledge workers, Claude Max users, Claude Pro users, API developers, scientific teams, automation builders, and organizations that need advanced coding, reasoning, computer use, business automation, scientific research, visual outputs, configurable effort, and cost-effective frontier-level AI performance

Audience

Software developers, engineering teams, AI coding agent users, DevOps professionals, and organizations that need capable agentic software engineering with lower execution cost and more efficient reasoning

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$5 per 1M tokens (input)
$5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$20/month
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Claude Opus 5 feels like a really strong model from a developer’s point of view. It is built for the kind of work I actually care about: complex coding, long-running agents, repo-level reasoning, debugging, and professional workflows that need more than a quick answer. I like that Anthropic is positioning it as a big improvement over Opus 4.8 while still making it more cost-effective than Fable 5. That matters a lot if you are building coding agents or internal dev tools where the model may run through a lot of tokens across planning, editing, testing, and iteration. The long-running agent focus is probably the biggest win. If a model can stay organized through multi-step tasks, recover from mistakes, and keep making progress without constant hand-holding, that is exactly what developers need from the next wave of AI coding tools.

Cons

  • The main downside is that I would still want to test it hard before trusting it with production code. Launch claims are useful, but real codebases are messy, full of edge cases, and usually much harder than polished benchmark tasks. It is also not the cheapest model in the world. Even if it is more affordable than Fable 5, developers will still need to route tasks carefully and avoid using a premium model for simple work that a faster or cheaper model could handle.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • The biggest thing that stands out is the cost-performance balance. SWE-2 is not just trying to top one benchmark; it is trying to get very close to frontier coding performance at a much lower cost. For developers, that matters a lot. Coding agents can burn through tokens quickly when they are reading files, making edits, running tests, and iterating. A model that performs near the top while being meaningfully cheaper is much easier to use every day. I also like that SWE-2 seems built for real software engineering workflows, not just isolated code snippets. The strong DeepSWE and Terminal-Bench results make it especially interesting for repo-level tasks, debugging, tool use, and longer agent runs.

Cons

  • Benchmarks are useful, but real projects bring messy architecture, flaky tests, undocumented behavior, and weird edge cases.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Anthropic
Founded: 2021
United States
claude.ai

Company Information

Cognition
Founded: 2023
United States
cognition.com

Alternatives

Alternatives

GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI
Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5

Anthropic
SWE-1.7

SWE-1.7

Cognition
Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic
SWE-1.6

SWE-1.6

Cognition

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Integrations

C
C#
C++
CSS
Dart
Devin
Devin Desktop
Go
HTML
JavaScript
Kotlin
Kubernetes
Objective-C
Python
Ruby
Rust
SQL
Scala
Swift
YAML
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