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I'll diverge from some of these comments, I don't find it misleading to compare to Opus 4.5. I can remember how good Opus 4.5 was. If I'm considering using thi
by furyofantares 7mo ago
I'll diverge from some of these comments, I don't find it misleading to compare to Opus 4.5.
I can remember how good Opus 4.5 was. If I'm considering using this, it's most informative to me to compare to the model it's closest to that I have familiarity with.
I'm obviously not switching to this if I want the best model. I'm switching if I'm hopeful that the smaller versions are close to it, or if I want to have more options for providers, or for any other reasons unrelated to getting the highest quality responses possible.
- bensyverson 7mo agoExactly this. If you can get something close to Opus 4.5 for free, that's noteworthy. I may not use it for the most critical pieces of my app, but not everything I do is galaxy-brain coding.
- cmrdporcupine 7mo agoYes, honestly, Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 were mostly not really noticeable improvements over 4.5 and 5.3 respectively. If we were stuck at 4.5 levels but at 1/10th of the price, I'll take it.
- furyofantares 7mo agoI find 4.6 pretty noticeable upgrade, but it might be the 1M context. I'm interested in how the 1M context works out with Qwen.
- nwienert 7mo agoI found it worse, in a very clear way.
- Alifatisk 7mo agoFrom Qwen-3-max thinking, I remember the inference becoming veeery slow as you pushed towards 1M context, already at 300k tokens you would notice the degradation. But of course, I was using Qwen Chat, so could be a resource allocation thing.