Aug 10 2026

Anthropic makes Sonnet 5's $2/$10 introductory pricing permanent, canceling the scheduled September 1st increase to $3/$15

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The cleanest public test of frontier pricing power ends before it starts: the lab chose not to attempt the raise. Logged late; the announcement went broadly unnoticed for three weeks.

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Anthropic holds the Sonnet 5 price increase · 70%, resolves November 30th 2026
Anthropic IPOs before OpenAI · 75%, resolves August 6th 2027
Anthropic keeps Model 2 unreleased through February 2027 · 70%, resolves March 1st 2027
A second flagship API adopts time-of-day pricing · 55%, resolves February 17th 2027
Anthropic runs no production traffic on Fractile silicon in 2027 · 70%, resolves December 31st 2027
Broadcom's Anthropic chip financing closes at $60 billion or more · 65%, resolves June 30th 2027

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