Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at lower prices
Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher than Opus 5 on coding tests, costs about 40% less to run, and paid Claude plans get higher limits.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September 2026. For developers it costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, down from $5 and $25 for Opus 5. Anthropic says typical jobs cost about 40% less and output arrives over 30% faster. On the Terminal-Bench 4.0 coding test it scored 66.4%, up from 52.3%.
If you pay for Claude, you get more use before hitting a limit. The five-hour limits went up on Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans.
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