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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 1, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic's Sonnet 5.5 Holds Price While Cutting Cost per Task, Matching Google's New Frontier Rate
The model stays at $2 and $10 per million input and output tokens, runs more than 30% faster, and posts 81.3% on SWE-bench Pro against Sonnet 5's 63.2%.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, describing it as a clear upgrade over Sonnet 5 that runs more than 30% faster and costs up to 30% less for most work. The list price did not move. Input stays at $2 per million tokens an…
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