Claude Opus 5.5 costs $5.98 per task as price cuts offset ~80% token usage spike
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-23
Artificial Analysis estimates Claude Opus 5.5 (max) costs $5.98 per Intelligence Index task, nearly flat versus Opus 5 (max) at $5.86 — but only because of offsetting forces:
- Higher token usage alone would have pushed per-task cost up 80% to $10.51.
- Anthropic's 20% base price cut brings that down to $8.41.
- A further cut to cache reads at $0.20 shaves another 29%, landing at $5.98.
Takeaway: nominal prices fell, but the model's surging token consumption ate most of the discount.
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