Anthropic has announced several updates to its AI model offerings, including a 50% price reduction for Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache reads, dropping the cost from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens. This move is intended to lower the cost of running complex, multi-step tasks on the platform.
In addition to the price cut, the company is introducing monthly API credits for its paid subscribers. Users on the Max 5x plan will receive $100 in credits, Max 20x users will get $200, and Team plan subscribers will share a pooled credit amount of up to $500. These updates are part of a broader announcement that also included the launch of Claude Haiku 5.5, a smaller, more affordable model priced to compete directly with OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna.