Opus 5.5 Is 20% Cheaper. The Other 20% Is Anthropic Asking You to Let It Think Less.
Anthropic's flagship price cut is real and checks out against its own price list. The "closer to 40%" savings number the company is showcasing three weeks before a roughly $2 trillion IPO roadshow depends on assumptions its own documentation quietly contradicts.
Everything this piece is built on.
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- PricingAnthropic (Claude Platform Docs)
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