Adam Holter(@AdamHoltererer):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

2026.11.07 01:27

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