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●PRICING — September 1 was the scheduled date for the Sonnet 5 price increase, and it did not happen. The introductory $2/$10 per MTok now stands as the regular price●PARTNER — Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, an expanded partnership. The Salesforce in Claude plugin ships with 37 prebuilt sales skills, from meeting prep to pipeline management●TRUST — Claudeforce serves Claude through Amazon Bedrock inside the Salesforce Trust Boundary, so data and inference never leave the security perimeter — an answer aimed squarely at regulated industries●BETA — Salesforce in Claude is with select pilot customers for now, with an open beta expected during September●LIMITS — The 50% weekly-limit boost runs through September 13. From September 14 the permanent level is 25% above the pre-promotion baseline, roughly a 17% cut from today●RELEASE — Claude Code has shipped nothing since v2.1.251 on August 28. Against a pace of one release every 0.8 days, a four-day gap is among the longest yet●PRICING — September 1 was the scheduled date for the Sonnet 5 price increase, and it did not happen. The introductory $2/$10 per MTok now stands as the regular price●PARTNER — Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, an expanded partnership. The Salesforce in Claude plugin ships with 37 prebuilt sales skills, from meeting prep to pipeline management●TRUST — Claudeforce serves Claude through Amazon Bedrock inside the Salesforce Trust Boundary, so data and inference never leave the security perimeter — an answer aimed squarely at regulated industries●BETA — Salesforce in Claude is with select pilot customers for now, with an open beta expected during September●LIMITS — The 50% weekly-limit boost runs through September 13. From September 14 the permanent level is 25% above the pre-promotion baseline, roughly a 17% cut from today●RELEASE — Claude Code has shipped nothing since v2.1.251 on August 28. Against a pace of one release every 0.8 days, a four-day gap is among the longest yet
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Claude Opus 4.6 Released — The New Flagship Model

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Claude Opus 4.6 Arrives

Anthropic has released its latest flagship model, Claude Opus 4.6, positioned as the most intelligent model for agent building and coding.

Key Features

Industry-Leading Coding Performance

Claude Opus 4.6 achieves top scores on coding benchmarks, with significant improvements in complex multi-file editing, architecture design, and debugging.

Expanded Output and Context

Maximum output has been expanded to 128K tokens (up from 32K in Opus 4). A beta 1M token context window is also available.

Extended Thinking and Adaptive Thinking

In addition to Extended Thinking, a new Adaptive Thinking mode has been introduced. It automatically adjusts reasoning depth based on problem complexity without requiring budget_tokens.

API Access

The API ID is claude-opus-4-6, available on all platforms (Claude API, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI).

Pricing

Input: $5 / million tokens, Output: $25 / million tokens. While more expensive than Sonnet 4.6, it may be more cost-effective for complex tasks that require fewer interactions.

Summary

Claude Opus 4.6 represents major progress especially in agent development and coding. Try it for projects demanding the highest quality.