AI & Machine Learning
July 27, 2026Claude Opus 5 for long-running agents: the cost math
Claude Opus 5 launched on 24 July 2026 at $5/$25 per million tokens with a 1M context window and day-one availability in Microsoft Foundry. For long-running agents the per-token price is the wrong unit: we work through cost per completed task against Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and flag the EU data-residency caveat Swedish Azure teams need to check first.
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
AI Agents
Microsoft Foundry
Azure
LLM Pricing
Claude Sonnet 5
GPT-5.6
Cost Optimization
Data Residency
By Technspire Team