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Comment by adi_kurian

1 day ago

Opus 4 & 4.1 are still on Vertex+Bedrock @ $75/1mm out. They were used very heavily and in my subjective opinion are better than 4.5 and 4.6.

Interesting, what makes them better to you?

  • Opus 4, with enough context, could do most all I wanted in a single shot. More often than not, when I had a bad outcome and was frustrated I would realize that I was the problem (in giving improper direction or missing key context).

    I also was in a pretty sweet position having a boat load of credits and premo vertex rate limits so I could 'afford' to dump hundreds of thousands of tokens in context all day.

    With Opus 4.5 and 4.6, I find I have to steer very actively.

    This is comparing using Opus 4 directly rather than comparing the performance of the models in Claude Code for example, or any 'agentic' setup.

    Kinda reminds me of 4o vs 4-turbo.

    I would imagine they are smaller models.