Sonnet

“We're actually seeing in a lot of cases, Sonnet is more expensive than Opus because it is so token hungry.”

“All of my, you know, sub-agents are like Haiku and Sonnet.”

“When Sonnet came out in October, our engineering team started adopting Claude Code at that point, and it was so obvious that the world had sort of changed in an instant in terms of the way that people were writing code, that it became obvious that it was going…”

“The closed-weight model labs distill models too, like, you know, Sonnet is, The partially distilled version of Opus and like you, this is how you like make smaller models out of bigger models.”

“Kimmy Keith K three, which is this big, everyone thinks it's the greatest thing in the world on X. It costs exactly the same as sonnet.”

“Where, you know, starting with around Sonnet three, five, three, six, we started to see this really remarkable jump in capability, which was then followed By adoption and usage and revenue.”

“Sonic couldn't handle two tools with the same name in OpenAI, GPT, 5.2. It was like, ah, I can figure this out. So that was an interesting one that we learned by accident through a SEV.”

“So for now it's a preview model with its own, in its own category.”

“Use, use the good models. One, because they're really hardened against prompt injection and some security risks out of the box. And two, you're just going to get a better experience. So I use a lot of Opus four, six, Sonnet four, six, and GPT five, four.”

“Our top two models used to be GPT-Foro, GPT-Five Mini, plots on it. This used to be a top three for a long period of time. Now our top three averages checking between was, is Gemini 2.5 pro, Opus 4.6, Sonnet.”

“The thing that happens is sometimes people try to use a less expensive model like Sonnet or something like this, but because it's less intelligent, it actually takes more tokens in the end to do the same task. And so it's actually not obvious that it's cheaper…”

“A new Quen model came out yesterday that is shockingly close to the best Sonnet model that there is from Anthropic.”

“Automating CRM work, using AI to do that is really, really, really, really annoying. And it's really hard. Claude is pretty great at it and Sonnet.”

“Like, if you take, like, Sonnet four to four five, and we're big partners with Anthropic, they have great models, like, that was, like, a few percentage point increase on Sweebench for us. And we invest, you know, we've invested a decent amount to be one of th…”

“All of their revenue comes from four Sonnet. Doesn't come from 4.1 Opus, right? Which is the better model. It's bigger, but it's slow. Because the hardware's not caught up in terms of inference speed for that, and so no one wants to use a slow model, right? Th…”

“I actually think Figma did a really good job with Make in that they you can tell that there's much more of a bridge between the sort of underlying design model and what the LLMs are doing in kind of coordination between Sonnet”

“So we, in our internal team right now, and this could change. We have about half of our internal team using a different model other than Sonnet as their main way of using AMP.”

“When cursors switch from Sonnet to GPT-V as like the default model that was like, you know, Two hundred million our revenue for Anthropic that kind of went away and like moved on to GPT-V.”

“Can an AI write a sonnet? It can, right? It can do it better than most humans. Can it write a screenplay? It can do that again, better than most humans.”

“If you give Opus a tool, which is Sonnet, It can use that tool effectively as a sub-agent. And we do this a lot in our agentic coding harness called Cloud Code. So if you ask it to like look through the code base for blah, blah, blah, then it will Delegate out…”

“Even GPT 4.5 is too expensive. Normally it's really gonna use it in, in any reasonable quantity. Like, you know, Claude 3.5 Opus, like if it does exist, still not like, you know, the thing that we actually use is Sonnet, right? So like, it's almost like a depl…”

“Sonnet was, you know, Sonnet was the, really the first model that flipped the equation because that was really us and all cursor and all these other things. The rapid growth started the second sauna went online, right? Like we actually tried building bull like…”

“Anything where it just seems simple and like, you can do one off and you don't need to bring a ton of context into it. You can typically use like sonnet or GPT for that. Anything where I feel like if I was going to try to implement it myself and I would need t…”

“Earlier this year, I think like in February, we had the idea for Bolt. We tried to build it with some of the, you know, frontier models available at that time. Wasn't possible to do. the models were just did not spit back quality, accurate code that was const…”

“Most preference ranked was GPT-Four-O, then Momo-Semety-Two-B, then Gemini, then Sonnet, then the Seven-B.”

“We still see an overwhelming majority of customers using OpenAI, but almost everyone is using Anthropic for the, and Sonnet specifically for their side projects, whether it's You know, via cursor or prototypes or whatever.”

“Like sonnet will still create things that kind of like floor you sometimes. Opus can just handle much more complexity. I'd say it is the big heuristic there.”