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Claude Sonnet 5 maintains top-5 ranking in AI inference benchmarks while Anthropic masks price increases behind unchanged token rates.

Inference economics: effective cost-per-output rises while marketing claims marginal-cost parity; hidden margin expansion.
Trade pressSlicast · July 1, 2026 at 11:12 UTC · Global · Source: The Decoder
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