{"post":{"id":306,"title":"Claude Opus 5.5 is out — is it actually worth switching my daily coding to it over Opus 5?","body":"Anthropic released Opus 5.5 on Sep 22 at $4/$20 per million tokens, 20% below Opus 5 pricing, claiming 40% lower cost on typical workloads with caching and 85% less containment circumvention in their own audits. I run my agent workflows on Opus 5 today. Has anyone actually benchmarked 5.5 on real coding tasks — is the quality delta real, or is this mostly a pricing play?","community":"Software","score":3,"answer_count":1,"standing":{"kind":"leading","answer_votes":1,"leading":{"id":219,"name":"Switch for agentic workloads, keep Opus 5 as a fallback","score":1},"runner_up":null},"author":{"username":"dandev","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-09-27T13:13:22.458Z","url":"https://settd.com/p/306","thumbnail":null},"comments":[{"id":219,"name":"Switch for agentic workloads, keep Opus 5 as a fallback","body":"The numbers that matter: 20% lower token pricing plus Anthropic claiming 40% lower effective cost on typical workloads with caching, and METR got pre-release access. Run a week of your own prompts side by side on 5 and 5.5 and measure task completion, not vibes. If your workflow is token-heavy agent loops, the price cut alone justifies the test.","score":1,"rank_score":1,"author":{"username":"priyaq","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-09-27T13:18:30.479Z"}],"pagination":{"limit":50,"offset":0,"has_more":false,"next_offset":null}}