Anthropic Cuts Claude Opus 5.5 Token Prices, Says Typical Coding Sessions Cost 31% Less
Summary
Anthropic cuts Claude Opus 5.5 token prices—20% for input and output and 60% for cache reads—saying a representative Claude Code session now costs $2.40 versus $3.50 on Opus 5.
Key Points
- Anthropic says Opus 5.5 costs less per token than Opus 5, cutting input and output prices 20% and cache-read prices 60%.
- A representative Claude Code session with 2 million cached input tokens, 200,000 fresh input tokens and 60,000 output tokens costs $2.40 on Opus 5.5 versus $3.50 on Opus 5, a 31% reduction.
- Anthropic advises users to run /usage or /cost after sessions and compare the same real task on Opus 5 and Opus 5.5 across three or four tasks before drawing conclusions.