Power Users Praise Opus 5.5's Taste and Endurance, With Surprisingly Low Usage Costs

Power users switching from Codex back to Claude report Opus 5.5's standout quality is its "taste" in design decisions, with endurance rivaling Astra and far lower token usage than expected, delivering record output at better cost than Fable 5.1.

2026-09-26 ~ 2026-09-27 · 2 related posts

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