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The credits can be spent on any Claude model, including Haiku 5.5, through the API, Agent SDK, or Console playground.
Anthropic now bundles developer credits into Claude Max and Team plans. Max 5x gets $100 a month, Max 20x gets $200, and Team plans pool up to $500. Subscribers claim them by linking a Claude Console account in billing settings.
They fund your own apps and automations, not chats or interactive Claude Code, and expire each billing cycle. Still, a $200 plan now includes $200 of building power.
Key Capabilities:

• Any model: Works on any Claude model on the platform, including Haiku 5.5.
• Not for chats: Interactive Claude Code and the Claude apps are excluded from the credits.
• Quick claim: Link a Console organization in billing settings after seven days on an eligible plan.

Ask it a plain-English question about company data and Claude Dashboards returns a chart that updates as the underlying data changes, while a separate tool, Motion, turns reports into short editable animations.
Anthropic launched Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in beta on October 8. Dashboards connects to platforms like BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, and Salesforce, and can hand off results to tools like Grafana or Mixpanel for deeper digging. Motion writes the animation as editable code rather than using a video generation model, so Anthropic says there’s no invented footage or AI-generated people, and every word or timing can be adjusted afterward.
In the same announcement, Claude Docs, Slides, and Design moved out of beta entirely, now free for everyone including the Free plan. Anthropic says over 45 million documents, decks, and designs have been made in Claude so far.
Key Capabilities:

• Live data link: Dashboards connects directly to a company’s data warehouse, not static uploads.
• Editable animation: Motion outputs are code, so every element can be changed before export.
• Access split: Dashboards is on all paid plans; Motion is Team and Enterprise only.

Claude Haiku 5.5 costs 90% less than its predecessor for most requests and beats OpenAI’s rival small model, GPT-6 Luna, on every benchmark Anthropic tested head-to-head.
Anthropic released Haiku 5.5 on October 7 at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts under 100,000 tokens, matching GPT-6 Luna’s price exactly. It’s the first Haiku model with an adjustable effort setting, letting developers trade cost for intelligence, and its context window grows to 1 million tokens, up from 200,000.
It completes Anthropic’s Claude 5.5 lineup, following Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 earlier this fall. Anthropic also quietly cut Sonnet 5.5’s cache-read price in half, from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens, in the same announcement.
Key Capabilities:

• Price: $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens (input/output) for prompts under 100K, 90% below Haiku 4.5.
• Bigger context: 1 million tokens, up from Haiku 4.5’s 200,000.
• First with effort control: The first Haiku model letting developers balance cost against intelligence.

Claude Opus 5.5 agents ran hundreds of physics simulations and flagged two candidate materials that sort electrons by spin while canceling out their own magnetism, a property useful for faster, lower-interference computer memory.
Vals AI deployed over 90 Opus 5.5 agents to search for "Luttinger-compensated" magnets, materials researchers have sought for decades. In three days, the agents proposed YBaMnFeO₅, a newly designed compound, and identified KV[Cr(CN)₆], a compound first synthesized in 1999, as having the right properties based on new calculations.
Both results are computational predictions only; neither material has been physically tested in a lab. YBaMnFeO₅'s required atomic structure may also be difficult to manufacture in practice. Vals AI published the full simulation data, scripts, and a reproducibility checker on GitHub.
Key Capabilities:

• Two candidates: One newly designed (YBaMnFeO₅), one rediscovered from a 1999 compound (KV[Cr(CN)₆]).
• Fully computational: Neither candidate has been synthesized or tested; both need lab verification next.
• Open data: Simulation inputs, outputs, and a one-command checker are public on GitHub.

A new sidebar lets Claude read and edit whatever Google Workspace file you have open, with every change requiring your approval unless you switch to "accept all" mode.
Anthropic launched Claude for Google Workspace in public beta for all paid plans on October 6. In Docs, Claude rewrites text in place or proposes changes as approval cards. In Sheets, it writes formulas, builds pivot tables and charts, and can run Python for data processing. In Slides, it generates new slides using a deck's existing layout and theme.
Separately, beta connectors let Claude create or edit Google files directly from a Claude chat, following whatever sharing permissions the user already has. One limitation reviewers noted: the sidebar can't touch other Drive files or Doc comments, and Slides charts currently come through as flat images.
Key Capabilities:

• Two edit modes: "Confirm before editing" reviews each change; "accept all" lets Claude run unsupervised.
• Sheets gets Python: Can run Python code for data processing, not just formulas.
• Enterprise controls: Compliance APIs and customer-managed encryption keys apply to the integration.

Anthropic's "mods" let developers write small TypeScript files that hook into Claude Code's internals, changing its behavior, interface, or adding entirely new features.
Anthropic released mods in Claude Code version 2.1.287 on October 1. A mod can watch an internal event, like a tool call or UI redraw, and rewrite or intercept it. Developers can write one by hand or ask Claude to build it during a session, with hot reload available for quick testing.
Early examples include a multiplayer Doom connector and a real-time cartoon spinner. Anthropic says it already rebuilt some of its own built-in features as mods. Because mods run with the same machine access as Claude Code itself, Anthropic recommends installing only from trusted sources.
Key Capabilities:

• Write or ask Claude: Build a mod in TypeScript yourself, or have Claude write it live.
• Hooks into events: Can intercept tool calls, prompts, slash commands, and UI rendering.
• Shareable: Ships inside plugins, installable via /plugin or shared through the Claude directory.

Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 are now selectable in Google's Antigravity coding environment, but only for paying Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, not free or trial users.
Google added both Claude models to Antigravity's official model picker on October 2-3, confirmed by Google DeepMind's Varun Mohan. They sit alongside Gemini and GPT-OSS as paid-tier options, billed through a Google subscription rather than Anthropic's own pricing.
Older models, including Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-OSS-120B, are scheduled for removal from Antigravity on November 2. Some users report tighter usage limits on the new models, though Google hasn't confirmed that officially.
Key Capabilities:

• Paid-tier only: Requires a non-trial Google AI Pro ($19.99/month) or Ultra subscription.
• Heavy adoption: One developer reported Opus 5.5 already drawing over 50% of their coding prompts.
• Legacy cutoff: Claude 4.6 models and GPT-OSS-120B leave Antigravity on November 2.

Since launching September 22, Opus 5.5 has led most independent benchmarks against GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6.1 Sol, at a higher price per task.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 scores 58 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index at max effort, ahead of GPT-6 Sol's 48. It also leads on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (66.4% vs. 43.9%) and most knowledge-work tests, while GPT-6.1 Sol, released a week later, narrowed some of that gap.
The trade-off is cost. Opus 5.5 runs about $5.98 per task on that index, compared with roughly $1.06 for GPT-6 Sol, so OpenAI's models remain the cheaper pick for high-volume, well-defined work.
Key Capabilities:

• Independent lead: 58 vs. 48 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index at max effort.
• Coding edge: 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, versus 43.9% for GPT-6 Sol.
• Price gap: Costs roughly 5-6 times more per task than GPT-6 Sol on the same index.

The second release in the Claude 5.5 family lands a week after Opus 5.5, aimed at everyday coding and document work at a lower cost per task.
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28. The company says it runs over 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and can cost up to 30% less per task, mainly because it uses fewer tokens and tool calls, not because the per-token price dropped.
Anthropic positions Sonnet 5.5 as a cheaper stand-in for Opus 5.5 on routine work like bug fixes and slide decks. It scored 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, versus 10.3% for Sonnet 5, though one independent tracker measured higher task costs at maximum effort.
Key Capabilities:

• Coding jump: Terminal-Bench 4.0 score rose from 10.3% (Sonnet 5) to 70.6%.
• First for cyber safeguards: The first Sonnet model to ship with cybersecurity protections similar to Anthropic's top-tier systems.
• Cloud reach: Live now on claude.ai and through AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Anthropic moved Claude Code's cloud sessions out of research preview to general availability, letting the AI keep coding on Anthropic's infrastructure after you disconnect, with free credits for Pro and Max subscribers through October 7.
Anthropic moved Claude Code cloud sessions out of research preview on September 23, letting Claude keep working on bug fixes even after you close your laptop. Pro subscribers get a one-time $100 credit, Max subscribers get $250, claimable through October 7.
Sessions start from the web, mobile app, desktop app, or claude --cloud in the CLI, and require a GitHub connection since each runs on its own branch and repo copy. The credit is separate from regular usage limits and applies automatically once a session begins.
Key Capabilities:

• Runs without you: Coding sessions continue on Anthropic's infrastructure after you disconnect.
• Free credits: $100 for Pro, $250 for Max, claimable through October 7.
• GitHub required: Each session runs on its own branch and repository copy.