Developers Say Opus 5.5 Is Now Their Daily Driver: Faster and Cheaper
Developer Addy Osmani says Anthropic's Opus 5.5 has become his daily coding model, matching Fable-level performance on most tasks while being faster and cheaper than Opus 5, with Pro/Max users also receiving refreshed usage limits.
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- Opus 5.5 becomes a daily driver: faster, cheaper than Opus 5, plus reset credits — addyosmani · 2026-09-23
- Dev calls Opus 5.5 his new daily driver: cheaper and faster than Opus 5 — jh3yy · 2026-09-23