I was wrong
Sol looks efficient on Artificial Analysis, but in real-world use it uses more tokens than Opus
When I just had aggregate numbers for the whole model, I thought this was because people tended to use Sol at higher reasoning efforts than Opus
But it turns out the split is pretty similar
About half of use is done at high reasoning for both
But despite all the benchmarks, Opus ends up significantly more efficient on high reasoning (the most common)
These are still different tasks
So usage patterns between Opus and Sol are different, but it's not because of different reasoning efforts
The best open model on GDPx is DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, at less than half of Opus 5.5
It's closer to a third if you don't count the domains where Opus refuses
Open models haven't been this far behind in a while
I held off on switching for a while bc there were a few things Codex had that T3 Code didn't.
What I failed to account for is the things T3 Code has that Codex doesn't.
Never looked back
I'm looking for a reliable source of data on subscription subsidization across lots of different models so that I can add this data to priors.
Anybody got a good suggestion?
Cost per task metrics always fail to account for subscription subsidization.
You can get way more bang for your buck on the $200 plans than paying API rates.
If they cut the API price of Opus in half tomorrow, but didn't affect your subscription usage, the "value" of that subscription would be cut in half without you losing anything
All of these numbers are just inflated
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