Sonnet 5 launches with Opus performance at lower cost

Short summary

Sonnet 5 is available at launch pricing ($2/$10 per million tokens through August 31) with performance matching Opus 4.8, enabling 50–67% cost reductions for most workloads. GitHub Copilot now works natively in JetBrains IDEs; Gemini's image model costs 50% less on Vercel with sub-4-second latency. GitLab's testing shows Sonnet 5 resolves 8.8% more issues with reliable multi-step agent completion; developers should migrate before pricing steps up on September 1.

• •Sonnet 5 launches at $2/$10 per million tokens (through Aug 31) matching Opus 4.8 performance—50–67% cost reduction; steps to $3/$15 in September
• •GitHub Copilot native in JetBrains IDEs eliminates plugin friction; Gemini image model 50% cheaper on Vercel with multimodal text+image in one API call
• •GitLab benchmarks: Sonnet 5 resolves 8.8% more issues and completes multi-step agent workflows reliably; ADK 2.0 replaces imperative orchestration with declarative graph API

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