Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 5.5
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The new model released by Anthropic is not intended to push the boundaries of intelligence. On September 22, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5. The first thing the official announcement highlighted was not performance,
Claude Opus 5.5 provide Fable 5.1-level performance on most work while Anthropic says typical workloads cost 40% less than Opus 5 with stronger agent safeguards
This article pulls together every verifiable number and detail from Anthropic's announcement, the platform documentation, the system card, and independent coverage, so you have one place to check the facts.
"Claude's new model is supposed to be amazing." However, even after reading the announcement, it's surprisingly difficult to grasp what exactly has improved and by how much.I compared the Claude Opus 5.
Claude Opus 5.5 reduces token costs by 40% while boosting speed up to 2.5x. Read our full test of Anthropic's new AI model for coding tasks.