Claude Opus 5.5: Anthropic makes its flagship model significantly cheaper
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Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5.5 and plans to cut the price of its flagship model by 40 percent. What is known so far – and which questions remain open.
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Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 5.5, a new generation of its most powerful model. The news that most quickly catches the attention of developers and enterprise customers: the price is set to fall significantly, without performance suffering.
As the only source so far, Golem.de reports concretely on the announcement. According to the report, the new model works "at the level of Claude Fable 5.1" – a designation that does not appear in Anthropic's existing lineup (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus) and sounds like a transcription or typographical error in the source.
What is confirmed, however, is the pricing promise: Opus 5.5 is set to become around 40 percent cheaper than the current top model. Those who have so far only used Claude at the lower-priced tier may now find it much easier to access the performance ceiling.
What Anthropic is announcing about Opus 5.5
According to Golem.de, Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's new flagship. At the center is the promise more performance per dollar; the URL of the original report additionally carries the tag "cheaper and safer," suggesting that Anthropic has also stepped up its work on AI Safety – though the available excerpt does not provide concrete safety details.
The key figure: 40 percent cheaper compared to the current Opus model. With this move, Anthropic is intensifying the price war with OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek, whose top models are now clustered in a narrow band on API pricing.
What remains open so far
The information picture is still thin: only one source underlies this assessment. Benchmarks, exact API prices per million tokens, context window, availability date, and the precise safety improvements are not mentioned in the available report.
Those who want more precise details should wait for official Anthropic communications – experience shows that manufacturers follow up model updates within a few hours with their own blog posts containing benchmarks and price lists.
Source basis: Golem.de.
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