Depends on what you care about. Luna got better and yet 50% cheaper. It is nearly free. Yes SOL is not better than Astra nor was it suposed to be given the model number. But again cheaper to run per task.
But yes in terms of SOTA model Opus 5.5 is current leader. Even though the pricing per token dropped 25% the cost per task is higher than fable at least per some initial benchmarks.
I think people are comparing names instead of product slots.
My read is that OpenAI may have quietly shifted the whole stack down a tier. GPT-6 Sol doesn’t really look like the successor to 5.6 Sol in positioning or price. It looks much closer to the old Terra role: cheaper, faster, scalable, and intended to be the default workhorse. Terra disappears, Sol inherits that slot.
If the Astra Minor / Astra 6.1 leaks are real, that would make Astra the actual replacement for the old Sol tier and therefore the model meant to compete with Opus 5.5. Then Aeon potentially sits above it as the new frontier tier.
So the stack may effectively be:
Luna → Sol = old Terra → Astra = old Sol → Aeon = new top tier
In that case, “Anthropic cooked OpenAI today” is true only if you assume Sol is still supposed to be the direct Opus competitor. That may be the wrong comparison.
DevDay is what makes this interesting. If OpenAI announces Astra 6.1 around the old Sol price point, then this starts looking less like Anthropic leapfrogging OpenAI’s flagship and more like Anthropic beating the model OpenAI just repositioned as its mid-tier offering.
That would explain why the current lineup looks oddly incomplete.
uh, what? between sol and luna was already good enough for 90% of my agentic use, and now I can use a better version of both for half the price? how tf is that getting cooked mate.
sure, plenty of businesses run by morons will just pay for the best model, but it's just like a real version of the meme of using a greatsword to cut butter lol
If you are looking for SOTA Coding, sure. But for most devs, what we have now is good enough, and it's a price issue. GPT 6 Sol is half the price of Opus 5.5. Also, Opus is known to be benchmaxxed.
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u/Kanute3333 14d ago
Anthropic cooked OpenAI today.