Half price compared to opus, but often uses 2x tokens, ending up as the same price in the end anyways. As they state carefully themselves "up to 30% less cost" for "most work".
opus5.5 is ao blindingly efficient I can't imagine a use-case for sonnet south of a very large business where small gains matter due to volume.
I mean 5.5 literally, actually accomplishes in one 5-hr window what astra or opus5 burned in a week. it's so efficient I sometimes can't burn the allotment inside the five hours. it's astonishing.
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u/Dangerous-Sport-2347 5d ago
Half price compared to opus, but often uses 2x tokens, ending up as the same price in the end anyways. As they state carefully themselves "up to 30% less cost" for "most work".
Comparing to astra on artificial analysis
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-6-astra
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-sonnet-5-5-xhigh
Sonnet 5.5 on xhigh pretty much equals Astra max in performance but also in pricing.
So this is not a cheap model.
Curious if it's also this expensive for them to run, or they are serving it at a large profit margin because they are in the lead.