Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less per task
Source: The Decoder (opens in a new tab) · Matthias Bastian
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The Decoder reports that Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family. According to reported figures, the model produces output over 30 percent faster, reduces cost per task by up to 30 percent, and nearly matches Opus 5.5 on knowledge-work benchmarks. It also reportedly achieved a 70.6 percent score on the Terminal-Bench coding benchmark, up from 10.3 percent. Anthropic also announced an upcoming Haiku 5.5 model.
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The release gives software engineering and enterprise teams access to near-flagship capabilities at lower operational costs and faster speeds, putting direct competitive pressure on frontier model suites such as OpenAI's GPT-6 series.
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SourceAnthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic announced the launch of Claude Sonnet 5.5, positioned as the primary mid-tier model in its Claude family for everyday tasks. According to the company, the new version delivers improved performance over the previous generation, operating over 30% faster at a reduced cost. Claims are as reported; this summary makes no determination about accuracy or significance.
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