| ▲ | estomagordo 5 hours ago |
| Why is it wild that a LLM is as capable as a previously released LLM? |
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| ▲ | crummy 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Opus is supposed to be the expensive-but-quality one, while Sonnet is the cheaper one. So if you don't want to pay the significant premium for Opus, it seems like you can just wait a few weeks till Sonnet catches up |
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| ▲ | ceroxylon 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Strangely enough, my first test with Sonnet 4.6 via the API for a relatively simple request was more expensive ($0.11) than my average request to Opus 4.6 (~$0.07), because it used way more tokens than what I would consider necessary for the prompt. | | |
| ▲ | svachalek 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is an interesting trend with recent models. The smarter ones get away with a lot less thinking tokens, partially to fully negating the speed/price advantage of the smaller models. |
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| ▲ | estomagordo an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Okay, thanks. Hard to keep all these names apart. I'm even surprised people pay more money for some models than others. |
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| ▲ | tempestn 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Because Opus 4.5 was released like a month ago and state of the art, and now the significantly faster and cheaper version is already comparable. |
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| ▲ | stavros 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Opus 4.5 was November, but your point stands. | | | |
| ▲ | micw 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Faster" is also a good point. I'm using different models via GitHub copilot and find the better, more accurate models way to slow. |
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| ▲ | simianwords 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It means price has decreased by 3 times in a few months. |
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| ▲ | Retr0id 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Because Opus 4.5 inference is/was more expensive. |
