Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 with 1M token context window, priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, achieving 40% cost reduction and 30% speed improvement over Opus 5, scoring 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 as a cost-effective alternative to Gable 5.1.
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 with a 20% price reduction, while OpenAI simultaneously released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at half the price of their GPT-5.6 equivalents, intensifying competition in the LLM pricing landscape. GPT-6 Luna at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens ranks among the cheapest models ever released, with analyst Simon Willison noting the aggressive pricing war across model tiers.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna models with API pricing at $0.10/$0.50 per 1M tokens, representing a 50% price reduction compared to GPT-5.6. The dramatic pricing decrease may necessitate industry shift to per-billion-token pricing structures.
Claude Opus 5.5 achieved the top score of 58 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-6 Astra on some benchmarks while leading in agentic knowledge work. Anthropic reduced Opus pricing by 20% to $4/$20 per 1M tokens and cut cache read costs by 60% to $0.20 per 1M tokens.
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, matching Claude Fable 5.1 performance at 40% lower operating costs and 30% faster output generation. The model features reduced token prices, improved communication quality, and will be followed by Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 variants in coming weeks.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the Claude 5.5 family, which matches Claude Opus 5.1 performance on most tasks while costing 40% less to run and offering lower per-token pricing with improved efficiency across all effort levels.