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title: 'In the News: August 31, 2026 (Extra)'
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# In the News: August 31, 2026 (Extra)


Claude Sonnet 5 will keep its $2/$10 per million token price after August 31. Anthropic has canceled the increase scheduled for September 1. A second item covers the continuing dispute over the session URL Claude Code writes into commit messages by default.

## 1. Anthropic cancels the scheduled Claude Sonnet 5 price increase

**[Pricing](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing)** · Anthropic, Claude Platform Docs, read August 31, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5 launched in June at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, framed at the time as introductory pricing running through August 31, with standard pricing of $3 and $15 per million tokens scheduled to start September 1, a 50 percent increase on both sides of the ledger. Anthropic's pricing documentation now reads: "The $2/$10 per million input/output token pricing for Claude Sonnet 5, announced at launch as introductory pricing through August 31, 2026, is now the standard price. The previously scheduled increase to $3/$15 per million input/output tokens on September 1, 2026 will not occur." The dependent rates built on top of that base figure, batch processing at $1 input and $5 output per million tokens, a five-minute cache write at 1.25 times the base input price, a one-hour write at twice the base rate, stay anchored to $2/$10 rather than the higher number some teams had planned around.

**Why it matters:** Teams that use Sonnet 5 as the default model behind their coding agents can stop budgeting for a 50 percent cost jump this week. Current rates do not fall; Anthropic is canceling an increase that was already scheduled. The tokenizer that makes Sonnet 5 consume roughly 30 percent more tokens than Sonnet 4.6 for the same text is unchanged.

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## Also this cycle

- **[Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504)** · GitHub, via Hacker News · A Claude Code feature request opened in June, asking that the tool stop inserting a claude.ai session link into every commit and pull request by default, resurfaced on Hacker News with a live argument over whether that link is useful provenance or an unaudited liability. Anthropic already ships an opt-out control for it, but the control defaults to on.