[ianberdin]

Opus 4.6 is the main model on https://playcode.io.

Not a secret, the model is the best on the world. Yet it is crazy expensive and this 35% is huge for us. $10,000 becomes $13,500. Don’t forget, anthropic tokenizer also shows way more than other providers.

We have experimented a lot with GLM 5.1. It is kinda close, but with downsides: no images, max 100K adequate context size and poor text writing. However, a great designer. So there is no replacement. We pray.

[sneak]

How much human developer can you buy for that $13.5k?

They’ve got us by the balls and they know it.

[WarmWash]

Gemini is strong and cheap, it's 90% of 4.6 at 20% of the tokens.