Blogger pits GPT-6 Astra against Opus 5.5: Anthropic lacks a decent non-Opus model
eyishazyer · x · 2026-10-03
Blogger eyishazyer compares next-gen models: he doesn't see Sonnet 5.5 matching GPT-6 Sol, and while Opus beats Astra 6, Astra is "a token-hungry monster" — a gap amplified by OpenAI's Pro-plan-to-API rate adjustments. He cites $300M per out-token offers for GPT-6 Astra. In replies he adds that Opus 5.5 is far less affordable at high effort, isn't decisively better once fallback is factored in, and that Anthropic no longer has a decent non-Opus model. Unverified front-line model talk.
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