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Claude Opus 5.5

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GodelNumbering · 1790095446 · focus · HN ↗
Finally that price drop
```
   Prices per 1M tokens     Claude Opus 5.5    Claude Opus 5
   Cache reads              $0.20              $0.50
   Input tokens             $4                 $5
   Output tokens            $20                $25
   Cache writes             $5                 $6.25
```
Opus 5 is the model with highest spend on openrouter (<a href="https://openrouter.ai/rankings#task-spend" rel="nofollow">https://openrouter.ai/rankings#task-spend) and it seems plausible that Opus 5 is/was the highest spend model in the world, and certainly Anthropic's biggest moneymaker.
If you are forced to reduce price despite raising capabilities, that certainly tells something about the market, and potentially about Anthropic future profitability too, since this model is their biggest topline contributor
1. blfr · 1790096364 · focus · HN ↗
  People are paying for Opus 5? Not just burning down tokens left after they enjoyed Fable on the sub? Amazing.
  1. rapfaria · 1790096605 · focus · HN ↗
    My workplace doesn't even offer Fable. And on the sub, I've had a hard time understanding Opus 5, but Fable can deal with it with subagents.
    If 5.5 is any better, I might try to do agentic-assisted development instead of just telling fable to delegate

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