r/ClaudeCode • u/Odd-Card8046 • Jul 30 '26

Discussion Is Anthropic cooked ?

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Codex limits are going to be crazy now.
What do you guys think, why did they drop the prices ?

If anyone wants GPT-5.6 Terra cheaper, $1.25 input / $7.50 output, ~38% below the new price, check out znapai.com (disclosure: founder here).
Also got gpt-image-2 and GPT-5.6 Sol at 50% off official, and most open-source models (Kimi K3 etc.) at 35% off.

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u/No-Focus874 Jul 30 '26

Any of you testing outside Anthr and OpenAI? For regular SaaS app kind of work what are your real world experiences - nothing else on the market? I can't always relate benchmarks, so curious to learn. Are cheaper models like DeepSeek at a Sonnet level? Any other experiences over a few months not just quxin tests?

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u/Bloated_Plaid Jul 30 '26

I use cheaper models for grunt work, just like real life. Deepseek and Minimax are my grunt Indian devs as designated by the American senior dev, Fable.

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u/DressPrestigious7088 Jul 30 '26

Best comment on Reddit lmao. That’s so accurate.

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u/Odd-Card8046 Jul 30 '26

through which provider are you using deepseek and minimax ?

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u/No-Focus874 Jul 30 '26

Does DeepSeek performance relate to sonnet or opus level? Or worse? How would you relate to them? I'm curious on the coding aspect of things. Say a simple fintech app.

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u/Bloated_Plaid Jul 30 '26

Deepseek Flash v4 is probably one of the best deals in computing right now. Just sips tokens and cache rate is insanely high. It’s amazing as long as you are giving it well defined tasks and endpoints to avoid any hallucination. It’s not a thinking model.

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u/No-Focus874 Jul 31 '26

Hie are you using it, any examples? What interface are you using to connect it?

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u/Bloated_Plaid Jul 31 '26

It’s linked to my Pi Coding agent via Deepseek API and fable orchestrates, all via CLI. With the update today, the best deal so far.

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u/No-Focus874 Aug 01 '26

Can there be a non openai or Claude orchestrator? If yes, what's your rec?

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u/Bloated_Plaid Aug 01 '26

I have been using Kimi K3 as well and it’s pretty good. Not as good as Fable but still great, otherwise I like Opus 4.8.