Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5.5 yesterday, and the coding number is the one I keep coming back to.
On Terminal-Bench 4.0, an agentic coding test, Sonnet 5.5 scores 70.6%. Sonnet 5 scored 10.3%. It also beats Opus 5.5 on that same test, at 66.4%.
The price per token stayed put, $2 in and $10 out. Anthropic says it usually needs far fewer tokens, so the real bill runs up to 30% lower, and it writes 30% faster.
I'm curious, are you moving everyday coding work over to Sonnet 5.5?
And do you still keep Opus for the jobs that need longer judgment?
Sep 29, 2026 · 2:10 PM UTC
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