Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, 30% faster and up to 30% cheaper
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Sonnet 5.5 is the second model in the Claude 5.5 family after Opus 5.5, priced the same as Sonnet 5 at $2/$10 per million tokens with cache reads at $0.20. Anthropic reports up to 20% lower costs on the Claude Platform and 30% more usage in Claude Code.
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9 days · 16 reports · 48 community posts · 64 of 68 shown
- Sep 28
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5youtube.com
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partnertechcrunch.com
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 with 30% cost reduction per-task due to faster speeds and fewer tool callsventurebeat.com
Anthropic launches cheaper AI model, its second release since CEO's call for a slowdowncnbc.com
Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AI Gatewayvercel.com
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 with near-Opus performance at half the pricethenewstack.io
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWSaws.amazon.com
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Pricedecrypt.co
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