Anthropic Announces Claude Sonnet 5.5: 30% Faster and 30% Cheaper
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which it says is more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and up to 30% cheaper per task. The token price has not changed, so the saving comes from fewer tokens and tool calls. We work through the cost arithmetic, the benchmark table against Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol, the new cyber and distillation safeguards, and whether to switch.
