Claude Sonnet 5.5 Outperforms Opus in Coding Efficiency
- Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, maintaining the price at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
- Sonnet 5.5 scored a higher completion rate of 70.6% on Terminal-Bench compared to Opus’s 66.4%.
- Artificial Analysis ranks Sonnet second, noting it uses more tokens per task than any model tested.
- Sonnet’s coding performance is notable, achieving near-flagship quality at a fraction of the cost when effort settings are optimized.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 offers significant improvements in speed and efficiency over its predecessor, excelling in coding tasks with a higher completion rate than its competitors at a lower cost per task.
Despite being a heavy talker, requiring more tokens per task, Anthropic claims that Sonnet’s savings come from lower effort settings, making it an economical choice for users focusing on everyday tasks and coding efficiency.(Source)
