You're referring to the Agentic search, but if you look at the Agentic computer use the cost is basically halved.

However, I am also confused about market positioning. Too expensive to perform daily tasks - open souce models are much cheaper - and not frontier model to address complex real world problems.

Rarely used Sonnet btw.

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energy123 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You're the second person that has said this but I cannot understand why you are interpreting the "Agentic computer use" graph in this manner.

The graph shows that Opus is cheaper than Sonnet for the same performance. Unless I am suffering a cognitive blindness thing right now.

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lucamark 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Wrong! Look at it better. It shows that Opus has superior performance but at higher cost.

	▲	doctoboggan 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, you are misunderstanding the graph. Draw a vertical line anywhere, that is a "constant cost" line. For any given cost, Opus 4.8 has a higher performance than Sonnet 5. Only where Sonnet 5 effort is at medium or low would it make any sense to use it, as there isn't even an equivalent Opus effort level to compare to. Alternatively you can draw a horizontal "constant performance" line and see that Opus is cheaper for a given performance level.
	▲	827a 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Why are you comparing xhigh reasoning between Sonnet and Opus? Of course Sonnet xhigh is cheaper than Opus xhigh, but that isn't the point; the point is that at e.g. 80% accuracy on Opus costs ~$0.45 (medium reasoning) whereas on Sonnet it costs ~$0.52 (xhigh/max reasoning).
	▲	brokencode 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That is a bad comparison. Compare Sonnet xhigh against Opus medium, which is both better and cheaper.
	▲	energy123 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No, that's apples and oranges. You need to compare Sonnet5's 79% with the interpolated Opus4.8's 79%.

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annzabelle 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Too expensive to perform daily tasks - open souce models are much cheaper

There is a real advantage, especially for businesses, in using an off the shelf solution from a corporate provider.

Personally, the advantage of not having to set up multiple solutions from multiple sources outweighs the cost of a $20 a month subscription. Think about why a lot of consumers prefer Apple devices over Linux. There are a lot of advantages to Linux, but "never having to think about my tools" is its own advantage.

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girvo 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The specific market positioning is... for me to use at my big tech company job, where we aren't allowed to use GLM and similar, but have fixed caps on how much token usage we're allowed to rack up a month.