Holy shit, Claude Opus 5.5 is now up to 40% cheaper than Opus 5. Same tasks. Same quality. Way less cost. Breakdown: Input tokens: $4/M (down 20%) Output tokens: $20/M (down 20%) Cache reads: $0.20/M (down 60%) Most of a coding session's cost comes from cache reads, so this alone can cut your bill by more than half. AI is slowly getting cheaper.