𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐔𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐮𝐬 𝟓.𝟓 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5.5, describing it as its most powerful model to date. The company says the model delivers performance comparable with its higher-end systems while reducing operating costs by 40% compared with Claude Opus 5. Reuters reports that Anthropic has also incorporated stronger safeguards and conducted external safety testing before release.

The model is priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, 20% below Claude Opus 5. Anthropic says Opus 5.5 is designed for demanding software development, knowledge work and long-running AI-agent tasks, and is available through platforms including AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure