Claude Opus 5
text model · Available
AnthropicLong-horizon reasoning and the steadiest instruction-following in the catalogue.
Fit and price
Recruitment fit
91
Per hour
$5.76
Per minute
$0.096
30-min interview
$2.88
About
Opus 5 is the model to reach for when a task has many steps and the cost of drifting off-instruction is high. In hiring that maps almost exactly onto rubric-based scoring: it holds a long rubric and applies it consistently across a batch, which is the property that makes scores defensible.
- Extended thinking
- Tool use
- Vision
- Structured outputs
- Prompt caching
Strengths and watch-outs
Strengths
- Consistent long-rubric scoring
- Cites CV evidence for audits
Watch out for
- Too pricey for first-pass parsing
- Use Haiku for cheap steps
Best for Structured scoring · Bias-audit passes over model output · Candidate feedback drafting
3 variants
Opus 5Max
Frontier tier for the hardest work.
15×
rel. cost
96
quality
Sonnet 5Balanced
The production workhorse.
3×
rel. cost
89
quality
Haiku 4.5Fast
Fast and cheap for high-volume steps.
1×
rel. cost
76
quality
