alt Hacker News> Sonnet 4.5, starting at $3/$15 per million tokens.
Are people really willing to pay these prices? The open-weight models are catching up in a rapid pace while keeping the prices so low. MiniMax M2.5, Kimi 2.5 and GLM-5 is dirt cheap compared to this. They may not be sota but they are more than good enough.
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TheTaytay • yesterday at 11:04 PM
It depends on how much you value the gap between “pretty good” and SOTA… I’ve noticed that Opus is more “expensive”,” but an error-filled rabbit hole is expensive too!
dana321 • yesterday at 11:04 PM
Some people will want the models like claude where you don't have to be super-specific and it will infer exactly what you mean.
With the GLM models you have to confirm with it exactly what you want, and not miss any detail.
I made my own benchmarks, very basic questions, and Claude 4.6 is actually worse than the free Stepfun 3.5 version: https://aibenchy.com
It is smart, but it fails at basic instruction following sometimes.
I remember this is a Claude thing for quite a while, where I kept trying to make it output just JSON (without structured output), and it always kept adding quotes or new lines.