Cost Drops 40%, Speed Rises 30%: Claude Opus 5.5 Breaks the Convention That Stronger Flagship Models Cost More
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 cuts typical workload costs by 40% and boosts output speed by more than 30% versus Opus 5, while setting a new high on Anthropic's alignment tests. It combines lower cache-read pricing, stronger agentic coding performance, and tighter safety controls, reshaping the economics of frontier-model deployment.