Perplexity Makes Claude Opus 5.5 Its Default AI Agent at 67% Lower Cost

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Perplexity slots Anthropic's new Opus 5.5 into Computer at the Standard effort tier, posting a 0.610 WANDR score for $4.13 per task.

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2026-09-22 16:48 · AlphaSignal
Perplexity Makes Claude Opus 5.5 Its Default AI Agent at 67% Lower Cost

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