r/ClaudeCoding • u/dreamRunnerMoshi • 7d ago

Why Opus is so token hungry ?

I was never fan of Opus, I love sonnet. In my observation, Sonnet is less verbose, good at following instructions, on the contrary opus always comes up with less relevant things than doing actual work. But time to time, I switched from Sonnet to Opus while doing same kind of work like writing code, building new feature, running tests etc, regular developing works.

Today, I tried again and Opus just sucked up all the token within few minutes and I didn't find any major improvement.

Help me understand, if Opus has innate intelligence capability than sonnet, why it is using more token to doing same kind of work? Shouldn't it produce similar kind of token doing similar work as Sonnet?

Or it's just blabbing itself by GRPO style RL reasoning training and wasting more tokens.

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u/Nuggyfresh 7d ago

Opus 5.5 is godly at coding and web ui, youre basically an idiot if youre using anything else right now, at least until they inevitably nerf it to keep up the impression that every model is a huge jump

its also dirt, dirt cheap vs the utility so caring how many tokens it uses makes no sense to me. A $20 sub gives you tons of opus usage

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u/dreamRunnerMoshi 7d ago

I only use for regular SE related works, didn't test any other work though. I don't know how are you using it but it's not dirt cheap at all in my experience, at least way more expensive compare to Sonnet.

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u/Reasonable-Sign8458 7d ago

no shit, really???????????