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# What a task costs on Opus 5.5

## Retrieval answer

Anthropic published task-cost guidance for Claude Code on Opus 5.5, framing spend around completed agentic work rather than token price alone.

Anthropic published task-cost guidance for Claude Code on Opus 5.5, framing spend around completed agentic work rather than token price alone. Its stated API list prices are $4 per million input tokens, $20 per million output tokens, and $0.20 per million cache reads. Versus Opus 5, Anthropic says input and output are 20% cheaper and cache reads are 60% cheaper. The company advises users to inspect `/usage` after a session and compare equivalent tasks by turns, output tokens, and cache use; its examples are illustrative and exclude cache writes.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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