@ArizePhoenix: Pricing is $10/$50 per million input/output tokens, with cache reads cut 75% to $0.25/M. Anthropic claims ~25% lower ty…
Summary
Anthropic announces pricing changes for its AI model API, with rates of $10 and $50 per million input and output tokens respectively, and a 75% reduction in cache read costs. The company claims these changes lead to about 25% lower typical costs and up to 45% savings for agentic workloads.
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