Sonnet 5.5, the cheaper Anthropic model, is already beating Opus in real builds
alex_verem · x · 2026-09-30
The author rounds up 8 notable community builds using Anthropic's newly released Sonnet 5.5, the cheaper tier model. In several cases Sonnet 5.5 matched or beat the flagship Opus — and did it faster. The bigger takeaway: the gap between budget and flagship models is shrinking fast.
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