Anthropic quietly changed the economics of AI automation for small businesses this week. On October 7, it shipped Claude Haiku 5.5 — its smallest, fastest model — at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens. That’s a tenth of what Haiku 4.5 cost, and Anthropic puts the average saving at around…
Yesterday afternoon, the two most important AI companies in the West got into a public price fight — and small businesses are the quiet winners. At 4pm on September 22, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens — roughly 40% cheaper than Opus 5 on…
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