# Artificial Analysis puts Claude Opus 5.5 (max) at $5.98 per Intelligence Index task

The estimate is close to $5.86 for Opus 5 (max). Higher token use is offset by a 20% base-price cut and a further reduction in cache-read pricing to $0.20.

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Source: Artificial Analysis · Published 9/22/2026, 16:43:35

Artificial Analysis estimates that Claude Opus 5.5 (max) costs $5.98 per Intelligence Index task, similar to $5.86 for Opus 5 (max). It says the similar cost combines a significant increase in token use with Anthropic’s price reductions.

Compared with Opus 5, the higher token use would raise the cost per task by about 80%, to $10.51. Artificial Analysis says a 20% cut to base prices brings that figure to $8.41, and cutting cache reads further to $0.20 brings it to $5.98, an additional 29% cut.

Tags: Claude Opus, Pricing, Artificial Analysis, Anthropic, Intelligence Index

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