Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% Lower Cost
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% Lower Cost Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its new 5.5 family, which it says performs at the level of flagship Fable 5.1 on most work while costing far less to run. Pricing drops across the board: input and output tokens now run $4 and $20 per million (20% below Opus 5), while cache reads, the bulk of agentic and coding costs, fall 60% to $0.20 per million. Output generates over 30% faster, and Anthropic raised five-hour usage limits on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans. On its own benchmarks the model leads in agentic coding, c…
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