Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, beating Opus 5.5 on coding at half price
Decrypt reports that Anthropic's mid-tier Claude Sonnet 5.5 tops its own flagship Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at half the cost per token, while an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model measured.
Why “Unverified”
- Reported by Decrypt alone, with no second source or primary confirmation yet
1 independent source groups across 1 posts · evidence score 56/100. How labels work
What the sources claim
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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 beats Opus 5.5 at coding for half the price.
“Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price”
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Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0.
“Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0”
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The model costs half as much per token.
“costs half as much per token”
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An independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.
“an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured”
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Sources
Summary and claims extracted by deepseek/deepseek-flash with prompt analyze-story@3 on 2026-09-29 18:10 UTC. Labels are computed from the sources, not by the model.