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  1. New
    AnthropicClaude Haiku 5.5Models

    Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 for fast, high-volume work

    Anthropic released Haiku 5.5 across the Claude API and supported cloud platforms for classification, summaries, customer support and other high-volume tasks. It offers adjustable effort and a 1M-token context window. API input and output start at $0.10 and $0.50 per million tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, with higher rates above that threshold. Speed and benchmark comparisons are Anthropic’s own tests.

    Anthropic2 sources

  2. New
    AnthropicClaude Sonnet 5.5 cache readsPricing & Access

    Anthropic halves Sonnet 5.5 cache-read pricing

    Anthropic lowered Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache reads from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens while its $2 input and $10 output rates remain the same. Teams that reuse long prompts may pay less; Anthropic’s roughly 20% agent-work saving is a workload-dependent company estimate, not a guaranteed bill reduction.

    Anthropic2 sources

  3. New
    AnthropicClaude Max and Team API creditsPricing & Access

    Claude Max and Team plans gain monthly API credits

    Anthropic is rolling out monthly Claude Platform credits: $100 for Max 5x, $200 for Max 20x, and pooled Team credits of $20 per Standard seat or $100 per Premium seat, capped at $500. New subscribers wait seven days before claiming; an eligible owner links one Console organization. Credits expire each billing cycle and do not cover interactive Claude Code, Claude apps, or third-party cloud hosting.

    Anthropic2 sources

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