Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates

Claude Sonnet 5 ranks fifth in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 53 points and even beats the pricier Opus 4.8 on some agent-based tasks. But the model chews through about 40 percent more tokens per task than its predecessor, nearly doubling real costs despite identical list prices. Anthropic's hidden price hikes are becoming a pattern.

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