Opus 5 Max burns ~3x tokens of Medium with little gain, staffer says
abeirami · x · 2026-08-27
Commenting on model evaluation practices, Abeirami notes observations often carry across benchmarks: Opus 5 Max burns roughly 3x the tokens of Opus 5 Medium without much gain — with the same per-token price, that makes it 3x more expensive overall. She recommends curating a set of tasks similar to your own work and comparing models on that.
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