Claude Opus 5.5: a cheaper flagship, with caveats
Anthropic cut Opus to $4/$20 per million tokens and cut cache reads by 60%. Here is what the vendor numbers mean, and what nobody outside Anthropic has checked yet.
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Anthropic cut Opus to $4/$20 per million tokens and cut cache reads by 60%. Here is what the vendor numbers mean, and what nobody outside Anthropic has checked yet.
Anthropic's new Sonnet keeps its $2/$10 price, claims 30% less cost per task, and beats Opus 5.5 on one benchmark. Here's what to check.
Grok 4.7 lands at $2 and $6 per million tokens with a 500,000-token context window. Strong on coding benches, and still behind on some.
Written live during the event. What OpenAI has actually confirmed about DevDay 2026, what is only reported, and what to check afterwards.