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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price

DecryptMonday, September 28, 2026 at 8:06 PM

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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price — Image via Decrypt

Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4. 0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.

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Impact: High
Category: Crypto
Market relevance: High
Why it matters: Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk. Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4. 0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured. Watch liquidity and volatility around Anthropic and Claude Sonnet — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.

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What happened

Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4. 0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.

Why it matters

Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk.

Background

Decrypt reported on this under crypto. RedScroll surfaces the signal with an extractive brief — not a reprint of the original article. Read the source for full reporting.

Timeline

Mon, Sep 28, 2026, 8:06 PM UTC
Decrypt published: Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price
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Economic impact

Watch liquidity and volatility around Anthropic and Claude Sonnet — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.

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