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AI Pricing — Fable-Level Power at 60% Less, Weeks Before Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO

What OPUS 5.5 may change

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Thomas Look
Sep 23, 2026
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On Tuesday Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. By the company’s own benchmark table it matches or beats Claude Fable 5.1 — its flagship until this week — on most tasks. Fable 5.1 costs $10 and $50. The same work, on the maker’s numbers, now costs 60% less. On the same day the market sold A…

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