[nrds]

> Use Opus 4.5.

This drives up price faster than quality though. Also increases latency.

[minimaxir]

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.

[sothatsit]

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.

[bakugo]

Obviously the Anthropic employee advertising their product wants you to pay as much as possible for it.

[handfuloflight]

The generosity of the Max plans indicates otherwise.