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Morning Edition · Monday, October 26, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic prices Claude Opus 5.5 at 20% below Opus 5 per token and claims 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0
Anthropic says the model costs 40% less to run on typical workloads, with cache reads down 60%, while every launch benchmark comes from its own evaluation table.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 leads the company's own launch table against both Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 on all nine published benchmarks. The headline figures are 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against 55.8% for its predecessor, 54.4%…
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