Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic says it performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September. The company says it performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5. Those are Anthropic's own figures.

It landed the same day as Xiaomi's and MiniMax's open-weight releases, a reminder that the closed labs are cutting prices too.

sources
  1. Anthropicanthropic.com

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