Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents
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Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
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You can now run Claude models in Microsoft Foundry, hosted on Azure.
— ClaudeDevs (@ClaudeDevs) June 29, 2026
Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4.5 are available through the Messages API with capabilities like prompt caching, thinking, and more.https://t.co/J5eZXnWKfn pic.twitter.com/05KOkrs1VT
THIS $700 CARD JUST KILLED YOUR $412/MONTH AI SUBSCRIPTION
— leopardracer (@leopardracer) June 30, 2026
24gb vram, same as a brand new 5090, best price to vram ratio that exists right now
drop one into a desktop you already own, run a 27b model at 25-30 tokens per second
mix burners and it gets cheaper still
sonnet for… https://t.co/TMgi69T0fP pic.twitter.com/KmEEJZqCGo
Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry, running on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 hardware on Azure.
— The AI Colony R&D (@TheAIColonyRD) June 30, 2026
Three of the biggest names in AI on one stack. For enterprises building agentic AI, it means more powerful autonomous agents at the lowest cost per token. pic.twitter.com/vcqZwW4Avv