Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5, Promises Cheaper Tasks

Anthropic has released its Claude Sonnet 5.5 AI model at Sonnet 5's price. Anthropic says some tasks cost less; Artificial Analysis' max-effort test found higher task cost than Sonnet 5. Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model for coding and multistep work, and says some developer tasks cost less than on Sonnet 5 at unchanged rates for the text it processes and generates. A task may involve several model requests and tool calls, so its bill can change with the amount of text consumed even when the rate does not.

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