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AI · Articlepublished 33d

Anthropic releases Haiku 5.5 with lower running costs for high-volume agents

Anthropic introduced Claude Haiku 5.5 on 7 October for short, frequent work such as classification, summaries and agent subtasks. It says average running costs are about 75% lower than Haiku 4.5 and has separately halved cache-read pricing for Sonnet 5.5.

Anthropic - Claude Haiku 5.5 · GitHub - Claude Haiku 5.5 in GitHub Copilot

AI · Articlepublished 51d

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 with cheaper cache reads

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5.5 across paid Claude plans and its developer platform at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, with cache reads cut to $0.20 per million. GitHub is also rolling the model into Copilot, while Anthropic’s performance and efficiency comparisons remain largely vendor-run measurements.

Anthropic - Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 · Anthropic - Claude Opus