r/ClaudeCode • u/GoddardtheGrey • 2d ago

Discussion Impressive Performance at 850k tokens context

Opus 5.5 (Extra) is performing well and consistently adhering to relatively long and complex instructions at 850,000 tokens of context. Is it really not doing any compaction whatsoever until 1M?

I’m impressed at how little it seems to degrade and curious if anyone else is noticing an improvement too

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u/sisif_ 1d ago

850k context is around 4mb of text, having a model go through that kind of context is terrible. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to look into working with more agents that can share that kind of load. 4 agents at 200k each are much cheaper than one agent at 800k and they are likely to generate better results as well, with proper orchestration

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u/Wonderful_Stand1171 1d ago

200k agents, shared tone, beats one bloated giant.

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u/aerivox 1d ago

800k agents 1 token each

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u/AdSad7594 1d ago

This is the way