Anthropic Halves Sonnet 5.5 Cache Read Pricing

Cache reads now cost $0.10 per million tokens on the Claude Platform, reducing costs by roughly 20% for most agentic workflows.

Standard pricing remains $2 per million tokens for input and $10 per million tokens for output.
The price cut applies exclusively to API usage and does not alter Claude Code usage limits.

Developers building caching-heavy agentic applications on the Claude API will see approximately 20% lower operating costs.

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