Anthropic Claude Opus 5 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

UpdateJul 24, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Databricks Model Serving now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 5 as a Databricks-hosted model. To access this model, use: Foundation Model APIs pay-per-token Query reasoning models Query vision models

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