# Anthropic Holds Sonnet Pricing Flat and Sells the Token Savings Instead

Sonnet 5.5 stays at $2 and $10 per million tokens, generates output more than 30% faster, and reaches 81.3% on SWE-bench Pro against 89.9% for the costlier Opus 5.5.

- Published: 2026-10-03T06:33:24.401Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-03/anthropic-holds-sonnet-pricing-flat-and-sells-the-token-savi
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5), [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5), [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-claude-sonnet-5-5-nearly-matches-opus-5-5-on-benchmarks-while-costing-up-to-30-percent-less-per-task/)

Anthropic's current mid-tier model, Claude Sonnet 5.5, keeps the same list price as its predecessor: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. The company's cost claim rests on token count rather than on rate. The model…

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