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Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5: Half the Price, Not Half the Bill
Sonnet 5.5 costs half as much per token as Opus 5.5. Then Artificial Analysis measured what a task actually costs, and the rate card stopped mattering.
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Sonnet 5.5 costs half as much per token as Opus 5.5. Then Artificial Analysis measured what a task actually costs, and the rate card stopped mattering.
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Google just dropped the most efficient agentic model on the market. It’s not about the benchmarks; it’s about the bill.
Kimi K3 scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Claude Opus 5 scores 63. That's the whole gap now — and the open model costs a third as much.