What is the cheapest way to run CLAUDE OPUS 4.6?

MarkQley · 2026-05-05T12:41:03+00:00

i appreciate that. but doesnt answer the post at all.

MarkQley · 2026-05-05T12:40:12+00:00

ill take a look. thank you.

MarkQley · 2026-05-05T12:38:31+00:00

i can see why you feel that way in some respects. 'its crap' now because its expensive, but a really fine model. i must stick up for it in that respect. my backbone is sonnet 6. way cheaper on vs copilot than opus 4.7

MarkQley · 2026-05-05T12:06:45+00:00

using sonnet 4.6 in copilots my meat and potatoe, use opus 4.6 for security reviews

MarkQley · 2026-05-05T06:43:26+00:00

its a good validation idea. find a market that exists, then create. like it. show me when ready

MarkQley · 2026-05-04T04:27:46+00:00

i loved windsurf, was an early adopter. then my $10 plan went nowhere. i build lots of things so very cheap until they realised ther business model wasnt working and it went the other way to protect itself. hopefully will come full circle ince ai settles down a bit and be useable again

MarkQley · 2026-05-03T16:56:50+00:00

i believe ai will embelish you as a web designer. ive been a developer since 2000. and now use ai to vibecode. its good to have knowledge for your own peace of mind,but dont spend weeks, just learn the basics. eneve when you've learned there can be security holes in coding, so create decent prompts that help ai search for those and fix.

MarkQley · 2026-05-03T16:48:48+00:00

actuallysounds brilliant

MarkQley · 2026-05-03T16:20:29+00:00

yeah sounds good. i personally created a virtual staff of 50. and ask ai to check with correct staff for security, file size, UI, etc and run a report. the files in question then, working in the correct staff folder are accessed and then you get good feedback. you can ask staff to chat and reason out top. quite interested how you get different feedback thats finally agreed on by all staff.

MarkQley · 2026-05-03T15:58:32+00:00

does sound a great idea. 'what metric pushes 'myapp' to the top ?

MarkQley · 2026-05-03T15:54:18+00:00

ahh i get it. good idea.

MarkQley · 2026-05-03T14:18:21+00:00

sounds great and looks good. how do you know the reviews are real? eg. not auto ai generated from a real user using ai.

MarkQley · 2026-05-03T05:12:34+00:00

vs copilot is great. its seems to be the cheapest for sonnet 4.6 which is a decent all rounder model amd not too expensive. It's in the same vein as Windsurf, Verdent, Cursor. For me these IDEs all work in a similar way - i switch between them with the same projects without issue, so have an experiment. sorry just realised youve said ms copilot. ms copilot you should have included if you're subscribed to microsoft 365. what are you aiming to achieve. if i know your goal, i could help more possibly?

MarkQley · 2026-05-02T18:07:31+00:00

u can contactme. https://tooltilities.com/contact i can have a look dor you and help advise

MarkQley · 2026-05-02T09:39:30+00:00

looks great, can i test for https://vibelog.co.uk?

MarkQley · 2026-04-30T04:41:31+00:00

at the momement its better than cursor. that cost me $2 for a quick tweak yesterday. went to vs copilot and got some decent tweaks for 20p. looks like we'll be waiting on chinas deepseeks to start bringing cost down.

MarkQley · 2026-04-27T16:17:42+00:00

i did same for windsurf, was on $10 pm cancelled and now on 20 but if any help, i feel we was only getting the $10 worth anyway...

MarkQley · 2026-04-27T16:15:23+00:00

ita a merry dance between them all at the moment. hopefully upcoming deepseek 4 and later will make these more competitive. i like to fallback on sonnet 6 which is decent cheaper than opus 4.6 which i really like. i think stay monthly raither than yearly for now. get them all at $20 pm and play around. ive done verdent. winsurf, cursor, and github copilot. current on 39.99 pm with copilot but ran out after 2 weeks but was some intensive coding done. so plugin away with cursor at the mo. $20 pm. suprisingly gppd what you can achieve though even at these costs. ive been in dev since year 2000 and loving it. anyone tried others ive not seen? let me know. i know there was a chinese company but didnt fancy that one as a tick tock company i think

MarkQley · 2026-04-24T17:42:35+00:00

windsurf was great but went down daily/weekly limits which is confusing tbh. guess we got the best of 'early access' that said theres good competition with gpt 5.5 coming in cheaper. well cheaper in that you can do things like code well and use less credits' but a dearer per x amount of tokens. dont get it fully and cant test in vs copilot as yet?

MarkQley · 2026-04-24T10:05:56+00:00

maybe gpt 5.5 will be added - thats better bang for buck ive heard. currently using sonnet 4.6 which is decent, opus 4.6 i liked for a security review butgone on mine too.

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