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Claude Sonnet 5 pricing made permanent: what it means for SME budgets
Anthropic has cancelled Claude Sonnet 5's planned price rise, so UK SMEs can now treat $2/$10 per million tokens as a stable budgeting baseline.
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Anthropic has cancelled Claude Sonnet 5's planned price rise, so UK SMEs can now treat $2/$10 per million tokens as a stable budgeting baseline.
Claude Opus 5 arrived on 24 July 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.8. The five-level effort setting, unchanged since Opus 4.7, still decides what an SME pays.
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