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		cube2222 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Sonnet 4.6 So tldr it seems like it's - a reasonable improvement over sonnet 4.5, esp. with agentic tool use - generally worse than opus 4.6 Probably not worth it for coding, but a win for anybody building agentic ai assistants of any sort with Sonnet.

Handy-Man 28 days ago [–]

It’s similar to or better than Opus 4.5 as per benchmarks, while being 2x-3x cheaper, definitely worth it over Opus 4.6, if cost/tokens is the concern.

To remind, Opus 4.5 was SOTA 2-3 weeks ago.

adastra22 28 days ago | [–]

Yes but Opus 4.6 is a massive step up. Some applications don’t need that power though.

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