# Claude Sonnet 5.5 Launch

> Claude Sonnet 5.5: Faster, cheaper AI model for everyday tasks.
- Title: Claude Sonnet 5.5 Launch · Anthropic | Shortify
- Summary: Claude Sonnet 5.5: Faster, cheaper AI model for everyday tasks. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost AI model for everyday tasks, coding, and document…
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- Source: Anthropic — https://anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5
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## Claude Sonnet 5.5 Launch
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the second model in the Claude 5.5 family, a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5.
## Faster Performance
Sonnet 5.5 scores 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, an agentic coding evaluation, compared to Sonnet 5’s 10.3%.
## Cost Efficiency
Sonnet 5.5 costs up to 30% less per task than Sonnet 5, with cache reads at $0.10 per million tokens.
## Speed Improvement
Sonnet 5.5 generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5, making it the fastest Sonnet model to date.
## Design Focus
Sonnet 5.5 is strongest at well-scoped everyday tasks, fixing bugs, and creating polished documents, slides, and spreadsheets.
## Cybersecurity Safeguards
Sonnet 5.5 launches with cyber safeguards and fallbacks comparable to Opus 5’s, the first Sonnet model with such features.
## Epic Games Test
Epic Games reported Sonnet 5.5 handled tens of thousands of lines of code for gameplay system architecture with less prescriptive prompting.
## Claude Haiku 5.5 Coming Soon
Claude Haiku 5.5, built for high-volume and cost-sensitive applications, will join the Claude 5.5 family in the coming weeks.
## Key takeaway

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost AI model for everyday tasks, coding, and document creation.