I'm impressed with Claude Sonnet in general. It's been doing better than Gemini 3 at following instructions. Gemini 2.5 Pro March 2025 was the best model I ever used and I feel Claude is reaching that level even surpassing it.

I subscribed to Claude because of that. I hope 4.6 is even better.

I don't see the point nor the hype for these models anymore. Until the price is reduced significantly, I don't see the gain. They've been able to solve most tasks just fine for the past year or so. The only limiting factor is price.

My take away is: it's roughly as good as Opus 4.5.

Now the question is: how much faster or cheaper is it?

Honest question: why would anyone use Opus instead of this? I’m doing web development, the whole shebang, and I don’t think I need Opus right now. I know it’s supposed to be smarter, but a 2%–5% improvement doesn’t seem meaningful, especially when it costs more than double and has only a portion of the context window.

Am I getting this wrong? I would seriously appreciate any clarification here.

I wonder what difference have people found with sonnet 4.5 and opus 4.5 and probably similar delta will remain.

Was sonnet 4.5 much worse than opus?

I noticed a big drop in opus 4.6 quality today and then I saw this news. Anyone else?

Maybe they should focus on the CLI not having a million bugs.

It actually looked at the skills, for the first time.