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Claude Sonnet 5: Anthropic hides cost increases behind unchanged token rates

Claude Sonnet 5 outperforms Opus 4.8 on some agent-based tasks despite a lower ranking (53 points vs. 4.8).

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It consumes ~40% more tokens per task than its predecessor, effectively doubling real costs without official price changes.

Anthropic repeats a pattern of hidden price increases, previously seen with other model versions.

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