Claude Opus 5.5: 40% Cost Cut, Beats GPT-6 on Coding Benchmarks, Real-World Tests Reveal Tradeoffs
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 with 40% lower typical workload cost than Opus 5, 60% cheaper cache reads, and leading agentic coding benchmarks (Terminal-Bench 4.0 66.4%), while community tests against GPT-6 Astra and Sol reveal tradeoffs across cost, speed, and output quality in 3D game development and simulation scenarios.
