I’ve played with DS4.1 Flash. It’s neat, no doubt. In my tests it does decently well against Sonnet 5.5 but uses way more tokens. That works out since it costs ~1/3rd Sonnet per task/PR according to my tracking.
However, I can easily burn ~$5/day if I use it as my “worker” (still using opus for planning and review) so call it ~$150/mo.
I could, if I were so inclined, get a second Claude Sub and have even more headroom (though I’m able to stay under my limits most of the time with my current setup). Also Claude gives me Artifacts, Web Search, and now even some API Credits.
I have no doubt the future is open weights and I can’t wait, literally, I can’t wait for them to catch up on intelligence or for hardware to run a decent model to be within my grasp. But until that comes to pass, I’ll keep using Anthropic.
However, I can easily burn ~$5/day if I use it as my “worker” (still using opus for planning and review) so call it ~$150/mo.
I could, if I were so inclined, get a second Claude Sub and have even more headroom (though I’m able to stay under my limits most of the time with my current setup). Also Claude gives me Artifacts, Web Search, and now even some API Credits.
I have no doubt the future is open weights and I can’t wait, literally, I can’t wait for them to catch up on intelligence or for hardware to run a decent model to be within my grasp. But until that comes to pass, I’ll keep using Anthropic.