Opus 5.5 Wins Back Codex Users at Lower Price

Every's hands-on test of Claude Opus 5.5 found it notably better behaved than Opus 5, approaching rival Fable 5's capability at roughly 40% of the price, winning back heavy users who had switched to Codex.

2026-09-24 ~ 2026-09-25 · 2 related posts

Full story(16 episodes)→

• Episode 1: Claude Opus 5.5 Spotted in Claude Code Ahead of Imminent Launch(2026-09-23, 8 posts)
• Episode 2: Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5: Stronger, 40% Cheaper, Tops AA Index(2026-09-23, 259 posts)
• Episode 3: Anthropic Launches Banked Usage Resets Alongside Opus 5.5(2026-09-23, 10 posts)
• Episode 4: Perplexity Rolls Out Opus 5.5 to All Users, Citing 67.6% Cost Savings(2026-09-23, 2 posts)
• Episode 5: Anthropic Teases Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 Within Weeks(2026-09-23, 2 posts)
• Episode 6: Claude Code 2.1.280 Ships with Opus 5.5 as Default Model(2026-09-23, 3 posts)
• Episode 7: Claude Opus 5.5 Rumored to Fall Back to Weaker Models on Frontier Dev Tasks(2026-09-23, 4 posts)
• Episode 8: Claude Opus 5.5 Launch Triggers Wave of Community Demos Within 24 Hours(2026-09-23, 14 posts)
• Episode 9: Dev recreates Minecraft in browser with Opus 5.5(2026-09-23, 2 posts)
• Episode 10: Rumor: Claude Opus 5.5 Stuns OpenAI, GPT-6.1 Timeline Squeezed(2026-09-23, 3 posts)
• Episode 11: Opus 5's FrontierCode Score Drops from 53.4% to 48% in New Card(2026-09-23, 3 posts)
• Episode 12: Developers Say Opus 5.5 Is Faster, Cheaper and Back as Daily Coding Model(2026-09-23, 4 posts)
• Episode 13: Claude Opus 5.5 Shown Generating Pixel-Art Animated Scenes(2026-09-23, 2 posts)
• Episode 14: Claude Opus 5.5 Tops Code Arena, Beating GPT-6 Astra by 26 Points(2026-09-24, 2 posts)
• Episode 15: Claude Opus 5.5 Delivers Fast, Proactive Coding That Developers Say Enables Flow State(2026-09-24, 2 posts)
• Episode 16: Opus 5.5 Wins Back Codex Users at Lower Price(2026-09-24, 2 posts)

• Opus 5.5 vibe check: 60% cheaper than Fable and winning back Codex converts — every · 2026-09-24
• Opus 5.5 Wins Back Codex Converts: Every.to Team Vibe Check — every · 2026-09-25