AI coding benchmarks

build5 publishers

Anthropic prices Sonnet 5.5 at half of Opus 5.5, with Sonnet close behind on most benchmarks and ahead on Terminal-Bench

Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5.5 lands within about two points of Opus 5.5 on coding and knowledge-work tests at half Opus's per-token price. The 30 percent saving it advertises is against Sonnet 5, so moving agents off Opus depends on per-task token counts nobody has verified independently.

Publishers:aws.amazon.comeconomictimes.indiatimes.comruntimewire.comthe-decoder.comthenewstack.io

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers

Builder: Builder 43%
Operator: Operator 32%
Investor: Investor 25%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption20
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence60

build1 publisher

DeepSeek 4.1 Flash undercuts a $20 coding seat only for teams running about one build a month

DeepSeek 4.1 Flash finished a metered Ship-Bench build for $15.04 in per-token fees and scored lowest at code review. Developers who run more than about one and a third full builds a month would still pay less on a $20 seat.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives: Insufficient
Confidence40

Current clusters

Anthropic prices Sonnet 5.5 at half of Opus 5.5, with Sonnet close behind on most benchmarks and ahead on Terminal-Bench

DeepSeek 4.1 Flash undercuts a $20 coding seat only for teams running about one build a month