Opus 5.5 medium costs slightly more but beats Astra on nearly everything
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-09-23
A brief comparison: Claude Opus 5.5 medium is slightly more expensive but outperforms Astra on nearly every benchmark, per an attached comparison table.
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