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Claude Max Looks Wild on Compute Value

Claude Max is absurd right now!

According to SemiAnalysis, $200 of Claude gives roughly ‼️ $11k ‼️ of API-equivalent Opus usage.

The same $200 at OpenAI gets you roughly $2k of Sol API-equivalent usage.

That's 5x more compute for the money!

But compute isn't output. If Sol finishes the same job using 10x fewer expensive tokens, it can still be cheaper.

In one real coding benchmark: GPT-6.1 Sol: $4.35 = 42.7 bugs fixed Opus 5.5: $58.53 = 41.7 bugs fixed

Basically you shouldn't care about token limits but instead think in completed tasks.

Source: newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-su…

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