Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Now Free for Everyone — What That Actually Means for Indian Professionals
Reading Time: 4 minutesAnthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which is over 30% faster and up to 30% cheaper than Sonnet 5 while matching its price — and it now powers the free tier on claude.ai, giving non-paying users access to a significantly more capable model. Indian professionals on the free tier get a real productivity upgrade, though extended thinking at maximum settings can fail expensively on API access, and Haiku 5.5 is still weeks away.