Sonnet 5.5 keeps $2/$10 per million tokens; thinking always on, `between_tools` disables it

ClaudeDevs · x · 2026-09-29

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is priced the same as Sonnet 5: $2/$10 per million tokens with cache reads at $0.20.

Migration guide highlights: thinking now runs by default (adaptive mode), and you can use betweentools to turn off upfront thinking. Five legacy settings return 400 errors: thinking budgets, sampling parameters, assistant prefill, forced tool choice, and thinking: {"type": "disabled"}. Anthropic provides per-model migration checklists from Sonnet 5/4.6/4.5/4/3.7 and Haiku 4.5.

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