Comment by PeterStuer
19 days ago
Nothing close to Opus is available in open weights. That said, do all your tasks need the power of Opus?
19 days ago
Nothing close to Opus is available in open weights. That said, do all your tasks need the power of Opus?
The problem is that having to actively decide when to use Opus defeats much of the purpose.
You could try letting a model decide, but given my experience with at least OpenAI’s “auto” model router, I’d rather not.
I also don't like having to think about it, and if it were free, I would not bother even though keeping up a decent local alternative is a good defensive move regardless.
But let's face it. For most people Opus comes at a significant financial cost per token if used more than very casual, so using it for rather trivial or iterative tasks that nevertheless consume a lot of those is something to avoid.