Comment by theHocineSaad

What's interesting is that Claude Sonnet 5 costs more per task ($2.29) than Opus 4.8 ($1.80), while the latter is obviously better!

It actually costs more per task than every other model. It's only cheaper than Claude Fable 5.

Source: https://artificialanalysis.ai/?cost=cost-per-task#price-and-..., as of writing this comment (the results are frequently changing)