Claude Sonnet 5.5 just launched — here's why it's about to become your daily driver
AI Claude Claude Sonnet 5.5 just launched — here's why it's about to become your daily driver Features By Amanda Caswell Published 29 September 2026 It easily beats Opus for everyday work When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. I might ask it to summarize something, explain a complicated topic, help plan a project or work through a problem, and then follow up as the answer takes shape. Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 needs far fewer tokens to finish the same job, so while developers pay the same $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens as they did for Sonnet 5, the company says the cost of a typical task drops by up to 30%.
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- ▪I might ask it to summarize something, explain a complicated topic, help plan a project or work through a problem, and then follow up as the answer takes shape.
- ▪Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 needs far fewer tokens to finish the same job, so while developers pay the same $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens as they did for Sonnet 5, the company says the cost of a typical task dr
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AI Claude Claude Sonnet 5.5 just launched — here's why it's about to become your daily driver Features By Amanda Caswell Published 29 September 2026 It easily beats Opus for everyday work When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Future) Copy link Facebook X Reddit Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Monday, six days after launching Opus 5.5, and for most people the smaller model may turn out to be the more important release of the two.Sonnet is the model built for the work people bring to Claude every day, like rewriting an email, summarizing a long document, turning messy…
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