Comment by noduerme
9 hours ago
I'm confused about Anthropic's pricing. Can anyone explain why Sonner 5 is $2/MTok in and Sonnet 4.6 is still $3?
9 hours ago
I'm confused about Anthropic's pricing. Can anyone explain why Sonner 5 is $2/MTok in and Sonnet 4.6 is still $3?
They originally released it at a "temporary discounted price", then made it permanent (probably due to competitive pressure). It's still way more expensive per task, due to tokenizer changes and general verbosity.
Is it? I just did a test switch over. For my personal needs I set up a box with OpenClaw back in March, which feels like a million years ago, that's been running Sonnet 4.6 since then. With all the caching it seems like my actual cost has come out around $1 per MTok on that. I just updated my whole setup today to try Sonnet 5... so far it looks like it's using fewer tokens for similar tasks, but it's only been half a day. I'm not super interested in changing harnesses, I realize this might not be the cheapest way but I've sorta come to enjoy OpenClaw... it's relatively effortless and responsive, and brief, given full control of a machine. And it does seem to incur some significant savings with the way it manages to keep things cached.
What would you suggest as an alternative if I'm happy with the harness?