Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5 at 60% Lower Price

The pricing move matters more than the benchmark gap: undercutting a rival flagship by a wide margin shifts competition from raw capability toward cost per unit of work, which is where most production deployments actually get decided. Buyers weighing frontier models now have a credible cheaper option, even if it trails on two published measures. Whether the discount holds once usage scales, and whether rivals respond with their own cuts, is the open question worth watching.