Claude Sonnet 5.5 in 60 seconds: faster, cheaper, and free to try

Length: about 60 seconds | Format: talking head + screen footage

Time	On screen	Voiceover
0–3s	Host to camera, big caption “FREE”	Claude’s newest model is now free to use.
3–12s	News headline screenshot	Yesterday Anthropic released Sonnet 5.5, its mid-range model, and this one is a little different.
12–25s	Captions pop in: “30% faster” “up to 30% cheaper” “same price”	Anthropic says it runs over 30% faster in most work, costs up to 30% less, and keeps the same API price as Sonnet 5.
25–38s	Coding screen recording	The interesting part is coding: on agentic coding tasks it even beats the pricier Opus 5.5.
38–50s	claude.ai screen recording	For most people, the key news is that claude.ai’s free tier now uses it by default.
50–57s	Caption “Haiku 5.5 · coming weeks”	Anthropic also says a smaller, cheaper Haiku 5.5 is coming in the next few weeks.
57–60s	Host back on camera	What would you have it do for you? Tell me in the comments.