Anthropic cuts Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache read price to $0.10, adds API credits
AI summary
Anthropic has lowered the Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache read price from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens and is adding monthly API credits: $100 for Max 5x, $200 for Max 20x, and up to $500 shared among Team users, per VentureBeat. The report says the model starts at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, matching OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna.
In-depth insight
Cheaper cache reads and bundled credits lower the cost of cache-heavy, long-context workloads and tighten the price competition between Anthropic and OpenAI.
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