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

Score history

Daily conviction score, 0 to 100. Higher means the thesis is more strongly corroborated.

Now 28 · -2 since Oct 11 · ranged 28 to 30

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Why the conviction moved

• Oct 11
  Weakened

  Days after keeping Sonnet 5.5 at $2/$10, Anthropic cut Haiku-tier pricing 10x. This shows the company is willing to pass efficiency gains through as lower list prices, not only as token savings, at least in the small-model tier.

• Oct 10
  Weakened

  A day after keeping Sonnet 5.5 at $2 and $10 per million tokens, Anthropic cut Haiku 5.5's price by 90%. Its pricing restraint looks tier-specific rather than a company-wide strategy of selling speed and token savings instead of lower prices.

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Source trail

• Contradicting · October 11, 2026

  Claude Haiku 5.5 Cuts Small-Model Prices to One Tenth of Haiku 4.5 and Jumps From 15.7% to 72.4% on OSWorld

  Days after keeping Sonnet 5.5 at $2/$10, Anthropic cut Haiku-tier pricing 10x. This shows the company is willing to pass efficiency gains through as lower list prices, not only as token savings, at least in the small-model tier.

  Anthropic News

• Contradicting · October 10, 2026

  Anthropic prices Claude Haiku 5.5 at one-tenth of Haiku 4.5 and lifts its OSWorld score to 72.4%

  A day after keeping Sonnet 5.5 at $2 and $10 per million tokens, Anthropic cut Haiku 5.5's price by 90%. Its pricing restraint looks tier-specific rather than a company-wide strategy of selling speed and token savings instead of lower prices.

  Anthropic News