{"version":"2.1.280","anchor":"new-cheaper-cost-table-for-claude-opus-5-5","canonical_anchor":"new-cheaper-cost-table-for-claude-opus-5-5","heading":"New cheaper cost table for claude-opus-5-5","tier":"notice","area":"Pricing","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.280\/e\/new-cheaper-cost-table-for-claude-opus-5-5","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.280","markdown":"### New cheaper cost table for claude-opus-5-5\n\nA new, cheaper token-cost tier now applies to the claude-opus-5-5 model id\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code now returns a separate, cheaper set of token costs for the model id `claude-opus-5-5`, distinct from the pricing used for `claude-opus-4-8` and `claude-opus-5`. The new tier covers input tokens, output tokens, prompt cache writes (both standard and 1-hour cache writes), and prompt cache reads.\n\n**Why**\n\nIf your account uses `claude-opus-5-5`, cost tracking and any cost-based logic in Claude Code will reflect these lower rates rather than the rates applied to the other Opus model ids.\n\n- Area: Pricing\n- Names: `claude-opus-5-5`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}