Opus 5.5 ships: 40% cheaper, 66.4% on Terminal-Bench, API at $4/$20
mark_k · x · 2026-09-23
Mark Kretschmann rounds up Anthropic's official numbers for Claude Opus 5.5:
- 40% lower costs on typical workloads than Opus 5
- Over 30% faster output
- 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, versus Opus 5's 52.3% and GPT-6 Astra's 57.9%
- Clearer writing and stronger performance on long, complex coding tasks
API pricing drops to $4/$20 per million input/output tokens. Pro, Max and Team users also get higher five-hour limits plus a rate-limit reset they can save for later.
Related event: Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5: Smarter, Faster and 40% Cheaper(55 posts)→
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