- The firm launched Claude Opus 5.5 at reduced inference fees, faster results, and enhanced coding performance.
- This follows reports that the company is preparing to go public in November with a valuation close to $2 trillion.
Opus 5.5 was unveiled by Anthropic at a reduced cost of operations, increased efficiency of production, and improved code performance. The software is designed for research, coding, and professional knowledge work but at reduced corporate expenditure. Anthropic claims that Opus 5.5 is capable of achieving performance comparable to Claude Fable 5.1 in routine tasks. The price is $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens.
However, the price for cached inputs is $0.2 per million tokens, which is 60 percent cheaper than Opus 5. Moreover, the output generation process is up to 30 percent faster. The unveiling of the new software comes against the backdrop of increasing pressures on AI companies to cut down on inference costs. Recently, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna were released with reduced API fees.
Model Performance Is Now an Important Feature to Sell
Anthropic also draws attention to higher scores on coding and professional performance benchmarks. The performance of Claude Opus 5.5 was 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, while Opus 5 scored 52.3%. Opus 5 managed to score 57.8% on CursorBench 4.0 in the process of software development. Also, the model achieved 1,846 Elo on GDPval-AA that evaluates professional knowledge work.
The company has shown several coding projects on a large scale in order to showcase what the model is capable of. One of the testers managed to migrate code consisting of 680,000 lines in less than one day. Another tester audited and corrected 200,000 lines of code in less than three hours.
AI Safety Controversy Collides With Anthropic’s IPO Plans
The announcement of Claude Opus 5.5 comes at a time of increasing controversy over safety precautions for frontier AI. CEO Dario Amodei has advocated for a more deliberate development of AI capabilities. Both the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk have echoed similar sentiments regarding advanced AI development. President Donald Trump is against any new laws on AI that will slow down U.S. development, as federal bodies can regulate the sector whenever necessary.
On the other hand, rumors say that Anthropic aims for an IPO in November, which will value the organization close to $2 trillion. There have been rumors about an increase in funding of up to $100 billion, but nothing has been confirmed yet by Anthropic. Claude Opus 5.5 is available via Claude, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
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