If they had a model on par with Opus 5.5 there would be no need to undercut it by that much, that's probably the logic.
Anthropic models are comically overpriced. They also gobble up an obscene # of tokens to get the same result as others. The price delta is literally 5x.
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Anthropic models are comically overpriced. They also gobble up an obscene # of tokens to get the same result as others. The price delta is literally 5x.