What Anthropic's $200 tier changes about choosing between Opus and Sonnet
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-10-08
The Thursdai podcast digs into what Anthropic's $200 tier changes for model selection. Altryne's take: "Sonnet made sense when Opus was expensive" — with pricing and usage allowances shifting, the default Claude choice is being rethought, and the episode walks through the Opus vs Sonnet trade-offs per tier.
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