Vehicles for Claude tiers: Haiku is a bicycle, Opus a C130, Fable the mothership
__rum_ham__ · reddit · 2026-09-21
A Reddit user mapped Anthropic's model tiers to vehicles to help newcomers choose: Haiku chat = bicycle (quick answers), Haiku Cowork = motorbike with saddlebags, Sonnet chat = car, Sonnet Cowork = SUV/bus (the reliable daily driver), Opus chat = Cessna (big picture, alternative POVs), Opus Cowork = C130 cargo plane (drops structure for lesser models), and Fable = the mothership — lightspeed but expensive, for short bursts to "teach the teacher."
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