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Claude Opus 5
by Anthropic
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RANKED #120 OF 313 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #162 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.4 · 2,435 VOICES ·
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Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis...
HAPPY7.4
139 mentions
SAD7.6
148 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 2,613 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Anthropic hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Claude Opus 5 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaRun a capable multimodal coding model locally on personal hardware with full privacy.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS❤️ CROWD FAVORITE21.3k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.9
GLM 5.3 FlashZhipuFast and cheap multimodal reasoning with top tier coding and agent performance.💸 COST EFFICIENT⚡ FAST💻 STRONG AT CODE13.1k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.3Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuStrong multimodal understanding across vision and audio with efficient MoE inference.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💸 COST EFFICIENT💻 STRONG AT CODE2.9k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with Claude Opus 5 right now. Biggest praise: help with code. Biggest gripe: saying no too much.
2394 POSTS · 80 COMMENTS · GITHUB · REDDIT · LEMMY · HACKER NEWS · DEV.TO · DEV FORUMS · BLUESKY · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (13 mentions)
- Popular for coding help (10 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (4 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (16 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (12 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (6 mentions)
- Writing feels flat or robotic (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
13 thumbs up · 8 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 16 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 12 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
10 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 6 thumbs down
- SpeedMOSTLY POSITIVE
4 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- WritingA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM BLOG >
“Their published examples claim Sol at xhigh effort beats Claude Opus 5 max on AutomationBench at roughly 9% of the cost per task , while Luna max exceeds GPT-5.6 Sol medium on OSWorld 2.0 offline at one-tenth the cost @reachvb .”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Beats Claude Opus 5 on Coding.”
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- REDDIT · 2026-09-16 · 312 UPVOTESClaude Opus 5 drew every frame of this animation using JavaScript
Claude Opus 5 drew every frame of this animation using JavaScript
- REDDIT · 2026-09-22 · 173 UPVOTESClaude Opus 5.5 spotted on Anthropic’s website, Tuesday release looking more likely
Claude Opus 5.5 spotted on Anthropic’s website, Tuesday release looking more likely
- REDDIT · 2026-10-01 · 153 UPVOTESIntroducing: Realistic Frankenstein 2.2.1 — Limitless Realism
Introducing: Realistic Frankenstein 2.2.1 — Limitless Realism
- REDDIT · 2026-09-26 · 121 UPVOTESPress X to Doubt Eval: I told 14 AI models it's September 2026 and showed them 20 things that actually happened this year without…
Press X to Doubt Eval: I told 14 AI models it's September 2026 and showed them 20 things that actually happened this year without websearch. On average they gave reality a 36% chance.
- REDDIT · 2026-09-03 · 103 UPVOTESThe prevalent problem of misleading benchmark reporting (re: Astra)
The prevalent problem of misleading benchmark reporting (re: Astra)
- REDDIT · 2026-09-22 · 91 UPVOTESGPT-6 Sol surpasses Claude Opus 5 on Agents’ Last Exam at 60% lower cost
GPT-6 Sol surpasses Claude Opus 5 on Agents’ Last Exam at 60% lower cost
- REDDIT · 2026-09-02 · 84 UPVOTES"Big news: Qwen3.8-Max-0902 by @Alibaba_Qwen just debuted at #1 overall in the Code Arena: WebDev with 1691 pts! It scores 3 pts above…
"Big news: Qwen3.8-Max-0902 by @Alibaba_Qwen just debuted at #1 overall in the Code Arena: WebDev with 1691 pts! It scores 3 pts above Claude Opus 5 (Max), 17 pts above Kimi K3 (Max), and 22 pts above the previous Qwen3.8-Max. Priced at a blended $5/MToken,…
- REDDIT · 2026-09-23 · 76 UPVOTESGPT-6 and Opus 5.5's biggest revolution isn't performance, its speed and cost.
GPT-6 and Opus 5.5's biggest revolution isn't performance, its speed and cost.
- REDDIT · 2026-09-02 · 70 UPVOTESQwen3.8-Max-0902 Beats Claude Opus 5 on Coding
Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Beats Claude Opus 5 on Coding
- REDDIT · 2026-08-12 · 65 UPVOTESClaude Opus 5's restrictions are frankly baffling
Claude Opus 5's restrictions are frankly baffling
- REDDIT · 2026-09-06 · 53 UPVOTESGLM 5.3 trying to gaslight itself (and me at the same time).
GLM 5.3 trying to gaslight itself (and me at the same time).
- REDDIT · 2026-07-28 · 47 UPVOTESOpus 5 - what is even happening?
Opus 5 - what is even happening?