[SebaSeba]

Sorry for the slightly off topic question, but can someone enlighten me which Claude model is more capable, Opus or Sonnet 3.5? I am confused because I see people fuzzing about Sonnet 3.5 being the best and yet somehow I seem to read again and again in factual texts and some benchmarks that Claude Opus is the most capable. Is there a simple answer to the question, what do I not understand? Please, thank you.

[zamadatix]

I think this image explains it best: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/images/4zrzovbb/website/1f0441...

I.e. Opus is the largest and best model of each family but Sonnet is the first model of the 3.5 family and can beat 3's Opus in most tasks. When 3.5 Opus is released it will again outpace the 3.5 Sonnet model of the same family universally (in terms of capability) but until then it's a comparison of two different families without a universal guarantee, just a strong lean towards the newer model.

[SebaSeba]

Thank you for clearing this out to me :)

[platelminto]

Sonnet 3.5.

Opus is the largest model, but of the Claude 3 family. Claude 3.5 is the newest family of models, with Sonnet being the middle sized 3.5 model - and also the only available one. Regardless, it's better than Opus (the largest Claude 3 one).

Presumably, a Claude 3.5 Opus will come out at some point, and should be even better - but maybe they've found that increasing the size for this model family just isn't cost effective. Or doesn't improve things that much. I'm unsure if they've said anything about it recently.

[SebaSeba]

Thank you :)