Key developments:

• Anthropic’s Claude lineup has been restructured with lower‑cost tiers. The new Haiku 5.5 model, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens (or $0.50 for prompts over 100K), is now the cheapest offering on the Claude API, undercutting even

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Anthropic announced a series of price reductions on October 7, 2026, making its newer models significantly cheaper for developers. Cache‑read costs for Sonnet 5.5 were halved to $0.10 per million tokens, which Anthropic says translates to roughly a 20% savings …