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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. AJ007 · 1790096652 · focus · HN ↗
  It is only a price drop if price * tokens used is less
  1. mcintyre1994 · 1790097162 · focus · HN ↗
    They're claiming a drop in token use too, and that it nets to 40% cheaper.
    drbscl · 1790097387 · focus · HN ↗
    Unfortunately, they're full of it <a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5#token-use" rel="nofollow">https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5#token-u...
    It does work out to be a similar cost per task though
    piotrdz · 1790104934 · focus · HN ↗
    Disagree. Our internal company tests showed a cost per task drop from 0.35usd to 0.16usd . Opus 5low vs opus 5.5 low
    johnbellone · 1790106259 · focus · HN ↗
    Very fast you were.
    piotrdz · 1790757008 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, I need 30 min to run the test suite with new model. Why the sparky comment

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