Anthropic Cuts AI Processing Costs 40% With Opus 5.5 Debut

Anthropic said its new Claude Opus 5.5 represents a “major step up” from Opus 5 and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads. “It’s the new leading model, and early testers saw large jumps in performance on their most complex work,” Anthropic said in a Tuesday (Sept. Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on the Claude Platform as well as Amazon Web Services , Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure , according to the announcement.