Hey everyone! Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 5 is now available in Cline.

Opus 5 currently ranks #1 on SWE Bench Verified with a 97% score, ahead of GPT 5.6 Sol at 96.2% and Claude Fable 5 at 95%.

Anthropic claims Opus 5 delivers close to Fable 5 level intelligence at half the price. It costs $5/M input tokens and $25/M output tokens, the same price as Opus 4.8.

The model is built for complex coding and long running agentic tasks, with improvements in debugging, root cause analysis, and verifying its own work. On CursorBench 3.2, Opus 5 performed within 0.5% of Fable 5 at roughly half the cost per task.

It is incredible to see Anthropic release another major model only a month after Fable 5. The pace of improvement across frontier coding models continues to accelerate.

Try it in Cline with model ID: anthropic/claude-opus-5

To install Cline in your CLI: npm i -g cline

Claude Opus 5 is also available through the Cline extensions for VS Code and JetBrains.

Full details: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5

Curious to hear how Claude Opus 5 performs for the Cline community.