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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. margorczynski · 1790100910 · focus · HN ↗
  All the anti-AI people constantly say that any moment now the prices will skyrocket and in the end human work will be cheaper compared to using AI.
  It doesn't look like that's happening, on the contrary the prices are falling especially when taking into account capabilities.
  1. runtime_terror · 1790179664 · focus · HN ↗
    You have no suspicion that this most recent collusion is in part to setup the conditions to guarantee government subsidies/bailouts?

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