Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance
Anthropic’s newest model, Opus 5.5, was released on Tuesday, setting a new state-of-the-art in coding and knowledge work performance. Notably, the release outpaces the larger Fable model in many benchmarks, and succeeded in a number of informal tasks that Fable failed to complete.
In the announcement, Anthropic called Opus 5.5 “the strongest-performing model we’ve tested to date.”
The new model is also significantly cheaper than its predecessor. Output tokens will be charged at $20 per mTok for Opus 5.5, compared to $25 for the previous model. Other metrics have similar price drops. The model is also faster to run, reflecting an overall drop in the compute requirements.
The new version also makes significant changes to how Opus communicates, with the Opus 5.5 less likely to use jargon and more likely to put important information at the start of its messages.
The launch comes just two months after the release...
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