Claude Opus 5.5 20% Price Cut Comparison
If you are budgeting for API use, Claude Opus 5.5's September 22, 2026 launch rates are US$4 per million input tokens and US$20 per million output tokens. Both are 20% below Opus 5. Anthropic's estimated 40% task savings depend on usage, rather than applying to every bill. What lower rates mean for a task Tokens are the units used to process content: input is sent to the model, and output is generated. With 1 million input tokens and 1 million output tokens, you would pay US$24 instead of US$30 at standard rates. That saves US$6, excluding caching and separate tool costs. Cache reads, which reuse stored inputs, cost US$0.20 per million tokens, down from US$0.50. The 60% reduction covers reads only; creating the cache costs extra. Compare Claude Opus 5.5 under the stated conditions In the original article on Injoys, you will find pricing tables, benchmark conditions and a migration checklist. Its useful distinction is between cheaper tokens and cheaper completed wo...