With Anthropic you always have 3 models to choose from: Opus-latest, Sonnet-latest, and Haiku-latest, from the best/slowest to the worst/fastest.
replyThe version numbers are mostly irrelevant as afaik price per token doesn't change between versions.
Three random names isn't ideal. I'm often need to double check which is which. This is why we use numbers
replyHow are the names random?
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
They dropped the magnum from opus but you could still easily deduce the order of the models just from their names if you know the words.
They aren't random. Opus's are very long poems, haikus are very short ones (3 lines), sonnets are in between (~14 lines)
replyIt's much more consistent. Only 3 lines, numbered 4.6, 4.6, and 4.5, and it's clear they're tiers and not alternate product lines. It wasn't until recently that GPT seems to have any kind of naming convention at all and it's not intuitive if every version number is a whole different class of tool.
replyThe pricing is more complex but also easy, Opus > Sonnet > Haiku no matter how you tweak those variables.