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Opus 5.5's claimed 40% cost cut needs a cache-heavy workload to appear
Anthropic's new flagship lists at $4 and $20 per million tokens, a fifth under Opus 5, and cache reads drop 60 percent to $0.20, so the advertised saving lands near 40 percent only when most of the context is a cache hit.
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