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Mark Santos@markksantosx

Sonnet 5 built landing page in 2m 11s at $3.36 vs Opus 4.8 at $20.66

  • Sonnet 5 used 20.9k input and 14.2k output tokens, costing $3.36 and taking 2m 11s.
  • Opus 4.8 used 96.3k input and 73.8k output tokens, costing $20.66 and taking 20m 15s.
  • Opus 4.8 produced higher quality output, but Sonnet 5 was faster and cheaper.
how to reproduce · Run both models in UltraCode mode via CLI with prompt: 'build a single html landing page about claude sonnet 5, the new AI model that just dropped from Anthropic.'
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Sonnet 5 built landing page in 2m 11s at $3.36 vs Opus 4.8 at $20.66 · DigestOps