[estomagordo]

Why is it wild that a LLM is as capable as a previously released LLM?

[crummy]

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

[ceroxylon]

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.

[estomagordo]

Okay, thanks. Hard to keep all these names apart.

I'm even surprised people pay more money for some models than others.

[tempestn]

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.

[micw]

"Faster" is also a good point. I'm using different models via GitHub copilot and find the better, more accurate models way to slow.

[stavros]

Opus 4.5 was November, but your point stands.

[simianwords]

It means price has decreased by 3 times in a few months.

[Retr0id]

Because Opus 4.5 inference is/was more expensive.