What you'll learn

New model releases come with big claims, but it's hard to know what actually changes for your workflow until you test it yourself. In this course, First Look: Claude Opus 5, you'll learn to evaluate Opus 5's real-world performance, cost, and safety profile, and adjust your prompting to get the most out of it.

First, you'll explore how Opus 5 stacks up on benchmarks and against competing models, and what independent testing reveals about its actual speed and cost compared to Fable 5 and Opus 4.8. Next, you'll discover the prompting adjustments Opus 5 needs, including task scoping, verbosity control, delegation limits, and self-verification behavior, so you can tune it for your use case. Finally, you'll learn how Opus 5 performs on vision tasks and long-context scenarios, and what its safety profile and cybersecurity restrictions mean for how you deploy it.

When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of Opus 5's strengths, tradeoffs, and prompting needs required to decide when it's the right model for your work.