| ▲ | nrds 11 hours ago |
| > Use Opus 4.5. This drives up price faster than quality though. Also increases latency. |
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| ▲ | sothatsit 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Opus 4.5 is significantly better if you can afford it. They also recently lowered the price for Opus 4.5, so it is only 1.67x the price of Sonnet, instead of 5x for Opus 4. |
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| ▲ | minimaxir 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There's a counterintuitive pricing aspect of Opus-sized LLMs in that they're so much smarter that in some cases, it can solve the problem faster and with much fewer tokens that it can end up being cheaper. |
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| ▲ | bakugo 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Obviously the Anthropic employee advertising their product wants you to pay as much as possible for it. |
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| ▲ | handfuloflight 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | The generosity of the Max plans indicates otherwise. | | |
| ▲ | bakugo 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | God bless these generously benevolent corporations, giving us such amazing services for the low low price of only $200 per month. I'm going to subscribe right now! I almost feel bad, it's like I'm stealing from them. | | |
| ▲ | handfuloflight 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | That $200 a month is getting me $2000 a month in API equivalent tokens. I used to spend $200+ an hour on a single developer. I'm quite sure that benevolence was a factor when they submitted me an invoice, since there is no real transparency if I was being overbilled or not or that the developer acted in my best interest rather than theirs. I'll never forget that one contractor who told me he took a whole 40 hours to do something he could have done in less than that, specifically because I allocated that as an upperbound weekly budget to him. | | |
| ▲ | bakugo 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | > That $200 a month is getting me $2000 a month in API equivalent tokens. Do you ever feel bad for basically robbing these poor people blind? They're clearly losing so much money by giving you $1800 in FREE tokens every month. Their business can't be profitable like this, but thankfully they're doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. | | |
| ▲ | handfuloflight 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm not sure that you actually expect to be taken seriously if you're going to assert that these companies don't have costs themselves to deliver their services. |
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