After weeks of testing: Sonnet for clean docs, Opus when structure must be inferred

SpryShade · reddit · 2026-09-12

A user who frequently summarizes long documents compared Claude Sonnet and Opus over several weeks on the same materials:

Their rule of thumb: Sonnet for clean documents, Opus when structure has to be inferred. Not scientific, just what held up across a few dozen documents.

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