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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5 as Higgsfield Shows Color-Matching Workflow in DaVinci Resolve

September 22, 2026 at 21:24 EDT

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, positioning it as a lower-cost, faster Opus model for coding, agents and knowledge work. Higgsfield is already showcasing the model in a creative workflow that moves mismatched exposure and white balance toward a consistent look inside DaVinci Resolve.

Sep 22, 2026 · Model release

Lower-cost Opus reaches the edit bay

Claude Opus 5.5 arrives with cheaper tokens and stronger agent benchmarks, while Higgsfield shows how the model can sit inside a DaVinci Resolve color-matching workflow.

40%

lower typical workload cost than Opus 5

token context window

66.4%

Terminal-Bench 4.0 score

$4/$20

input and output per 1M tokens

Typical Task Cost Index

A 40% reduction means the new model is visualized as 60 blocks for every 100 baseline blocks.

100%

Opus 5 baseline

60%

Opus 5.5 typical task

Color-Match Workflow

Source frame

The clip that needs matching

→

Reference look

A graded shot, still or photo

→

AI LUT or nodes

The matched grade is returned to Resolve

What Improves

Lower cache-read costs, clearer long-run reports and stronger agentic coding results make Opus 5.5 easier to justify for supervised production work.

What Needs Review

Always-on thinking can change token use, and AI color matches still need human checks across the full shot and sequence.

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