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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 with 20% lower API costs and faster output

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Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, an upgrade to its Opus 5 model, with significant changes for API users. The new version offers a 20% reduction in per-token costs for both input and output, and a claimed 30% faster output speed. A notable change is the introduction of a caching mechanism, where writing a prefix costs more but subsequent reads are drastically cheaper, leading to substantial savings for repeated use cases. Developers are advised to re-evaluate their token usage and costs, as the efficiency gains can vary between 20% and 40% depending on the workload. AI

IMPACT API users will see reduced costs and faster response times, necessitating re-evaluation of token usage and pricing models.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 with 20% lower API costs and faster output

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 Deutsch(DE) · Emre Demir ·

    Migration from Claude Opus 5 to Opus 5.5: What changes for API users

    <h1> Claude Opus 5.5 Migration: Was sich für die API wirklich ändert </h1> <p>Anthropic hat Claude Opus 5.5 am 22. September 2026 veröffentlicht. Für alle, die die Claude-API ansprechen, ist das Upgrade ein einziger String: <code>claude-opus-5</code> wird zu <code>claude-opus-5-5…

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