Anthropic on October 7, 2026, lowered the price of cache reads on Claude Sonnet 5.5 by 50%, from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens, effective immediately. The company also introduced a monthly Claude Platform API credit for Max and Team subscribers: $100 per month for Max 5x, $200 per month for Max 20x, and up to $500 per month pooled across users on Team plans. Both changes were announced alongside the launch of Claude Haiku 5.5, the company’s new small model, in the “Further updates” section…