Early impressions of Claude Opus 5.5’s speed, cost and creative work
One user praises more natural-sounding output and better 3D, game and frontend work, but flags max effort as still slow and token-hungry.
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In a September 23 post, a user summarizes early Opus 5.5 buzz as a big improvement over Opus 5, highlighting more natural-sounding output and better performance on 3D, games, frontend work and animations. They cite claims of 30%-plus faster performance and around 40% lower cost per task, while noting that max effort remains slow and token-hungry. Based on their own testing, they call it the best model available and say they resubscribed to Claude.
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