Jason Botterill says non-thinking Opus 5 may beat Sonnet 5 on some tasks

JasonBotterill · x · 2026-07-26

Jason Botterill says Anthropic’s non-thinking Opus 5 may be the better choice over thinking Sonnet 5 for some tasks, and claims the comparison is oddly absent from the benchmarks.

He adds that Anthropic seems unusually strong at base models: Opus 5 feels more like it has “common sense” in instruction following, and is more forgiving when prompts are imperfect.

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