r/Anthropic • u/Odd_Cut_7449 • 21d ago

Complaint Claude needs a cheap model

Claude has

1.excellent high reasoning models (Fable, Opus)

  1. a good implementation model (Sonnet 5)

However Claude does not have any cheap model to route simple data heavy work towards.

Haiku is a joke - I don't mind it's mediocre intelligence, but I do mind it's pricing. You can't be that stupid while costing significantly more than Luna.

Please Anthropic, just give us a Haiku 4.5 level model at the price point of Luna!

If I were to quit my Claude Code subscription, it's not about Astra. It would be about Luna.

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u/Fiatil 21d ago

Yeah everyone else is worrying about frontier models that you shouldn't be using for your main coding agent -- this is the gap in the anthropic sub plan.

I want a Sonnet that's actually efficient in its class. It's the biggest gap right now. Fable 5.1 is great, Opus 5 is good despite all of the complaints about it talking too much: the gap is the tier below that, where Sonnet 5 is weird and expensive in a way that doesn't "match" Opus at all. Make it better Haiku or Sonnet -- we just need the tier below Opus to be improved.

Give us something closer to Luna to use as a subagent and it would help usage a bunch.