[sergiotapia]

You compare what can be used by most engineers. Most engineers are not going to spend that insane price of Opus. It's extremely high compared to all other models, so even if it is slightly better, it's a non-starter for engineering workloads.

[andsoitis]

> t insane price of Opus

I believe Opus starts at $20 a month, similar to GPT5 if you want more than just cursory usage.

Or am I missing something?

[michaelt]

For $20/month you get Opus in-browser chat access, and Sonnet claude code access.

If you want to use Opus in claude code, you've got to get the $100/month plan - or pay API prices. And agentic coding uses a lot of tokens.

[sergiotapia]

Yes you are missing something:

    Claude Opus 4.1

    Most intelligent model for complex tasks
    Input  $15 / MTok
    Output $75 / MTok
    Prompt caching
      Write $18.75 / MTok
      Read  $1.50 / MTok

[andsoitis]

I see. Do you know of a resource that does an across-the board apples-to-apples comparison between the different services (knowing they all price slightly differently)?

It would be useful to be able to easily compare what it costs across the big providers: Gemini, Grok, Claude, ChatGPT.

[markbao]

Most engineers spending their own money maybe, but the cost of Opus is not that much compared to the output when the company is paying for it.