# 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.

## Why it matters

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

## Sources

- [Anthropic: Anthropic Halves Sonnet 5.5 Cache Read Pricing](https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2108287358374482381)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-10-08. https://dstilled.ai/story/d21901c9-37c7-4b7b-988b-8dae205039df