Claude Opus 5.5 is here. Fable 5.1-level performance, 40% cheaper than Opus 5
Anthropic has announced "Claude Opus 5.5," the first model in the Claude 5.5 family. While delivering performance comparable to Fable 5.1 across many tasks, it runs approximately 40% cheaper than Opus 5 on typical workloads. We summarize the benchmarks, cost by effort, pricing, improvements in text readability, and changes to safety and safeguards, along with the graphs from the official announcement.