Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

	Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)(artificialanalysis.ai)
	329 points by theanonymousone 21 days ago \| 103 comments
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	HN Discussion: ~Benchmark reasoning modes are impractical, burning through token budgets without completing tasks ↓Skepticism about benchmark validity since models are trained to ace them; real-world testing matters more ↓Frontier models cost 100x more than open-weight alternatives without proportional gains, threatening the business model ↑Opus 5.5 shows meaningful improvements over Opus 5 in cost, verbosity, and stability ↓The article's phrasing about pricing relative to similarly-priced models is logically incoherent