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by Roark66 42 days ago
No. I've tried all the OS models up to Qwen 480B and Kimi (the biggest models). None come even close to Claude.

I do mostly scripting, devops, data processing and systems stuff (ansible playbooks, managing network devices, deploying new software for various things that involves reading docs, writing helm charts, modifying existing ones etc).

All other models Gemini, Chatgpt, grok and all OS models don't come even close. I'd rather use Sonet than Qwen.

It's a sad reality. I was thinking about implementing maybe some sort of "sanity checking" by running every prompt twice on two different models doing sanity checking of the first on the second.

Elaborate knowledge systems help a little, but personally I think Anthropic must be doing something "clever" with its models (processing via multiple models etc). Nothing else in my mind explains the discrepancy.

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> I'd rather use Sonnet than Qwen

I get this, though the pace of Chinese releases is relentless. Qwen3.7 Plus/Max (closed variants) feel notably better than Qwen3.6, and Minimax M3 is a big jump from 2.7 in capability as well. Both of these families had their previous major release less than 90 days ago.

Anthropic must have Sonnet 5 either waiting or cooking though, they said smaller and larger models than Opus were coming and we already briefly had the larger model.

GPT5.5 with Codex is definitely on-par or better than Opus 4.8, GPT5.4 isn't far behind either (source: our dev team uses opus and gpt interchangeably).

I've also used Composer2.5 on hobby projects and it is definitely on-par with Opus 4.8 (thinking mode: medium), but much faster.

Do you think you're getting better results with Claude because your agent stack (skills, MCPs, etc.) are configured for it and not for the others?