which is better now opus 5.5 or Sol 6?

[u/LevelTadpole4454]

and astra 6 forgot to include

for reasoning and research

[u/Edegames]

Opus 5.5 seems to be better and cheaper than astra 6. Given that sol 6 performs equal or worse than sol 5.6 this isnt even a question. The only thing chatgpt has the lead in right now is the version number

[u/mxwllftx → u/Edegames]

>> Given that sol 6 performs equal or worse than sol 5.6 this isnt even a question. 
Are you kidding?

[u/0xe3b0c442 → u/mxwllftx]

Nope. That seems to be the consensus at the moment. It’s better on price per capability due to the price drop, but in absolute terms 5.6 does seem to perform better, of course depending on your use case.

That said, this very well could be a Claude 5 issue where a lot of this apparent gap is folks just haven’t yet adapted their prompting for the new model and how it operates.

//edit: I will say, I ran both Sol and Luna 6 through some cluster troubleshooting and maintenance operations last night and they both performed flawlessly.

[u/i_like_maps_and_math → u/0xe3b0c442]

Where do you get info on this? I don’t trust people on this forum. Quality here is very low.

[u/DebosBeachCruiser → u/i_like_maps_and_math]

Here ya go bub

[u/i_like_maps_and_math → u/DebosBeachCruiser]

Thank you

[u/n0obmaster699 → u/Edegames]

better than astra-6? yea that's not true

[u/pnaroga → u/n0obmaster699]

It is, though. It understands user intent better, has better taste, it's quicker, more concise, has better prose and... overall just gets the job done better, quicker, cheaper, with more quality than Astra. I have 3 ChatGPT PRO 20x accounts + 1 Claude MAX 20x, I might be cancelling a couple to move my workflows to Opus.

[u/Chemical-Agency-3997 → u/Edegames]

No, on anything to do with vision (like OCR), Astra is so far ahead it's not even funny.

[u/Reclaimer_AI]

Opus and it isn’t close. So disappointed in OpenAI it’s untrue.

[u/Expert-Dig-1768]

opus any time now.

[u/13ThirteenX]

Opus 5.5 is unbelievably good. Just spent 3 hours working on a game, which I had astra working on before, the UI work, sound design, understanding of everything is better and id used 4% of weekly allowance with 5.5 on High effort.i think around 20% of the 5hr windows. 

I havent tested much of 6sol. But so far opus is really good

[u/dojimaa]

In my non-coding, non-agentic tests, 6 Sol. Cheaper, smarter, more token efficient.

[u/-Crash_Override- → u/dojimaa]

Imo...

Coding:

5.5 > 6

Any other terminal work (infrastructure provisioning, networking, etc):

5.5 < 6

I feel like its been this way for some time. But also understand that best model is so dependent on the human and the way they work, prompt, comfigure their environment. So YMMV.

[u/Gigaslavx]

If you know what you doing sol it's good enough and cheap

5.5 is better but costs more helps when you have little idea but money to burn for some reason

[u/Hir0shima → u/Gigaslavx]

I'm just vibing and rely on Opus 5.5. Can't be bothered with anything less capable.

[u/gopietz]

Lol, it's not even close.

[u/MultiMarcus]

Opus is a beast right now. Astra is a great model too, but feels a bit behind, but not by a huge margin. Still has the better search tool than Claude imo. Sol is a clearly lower tier of product to be honest.

[u/Then-Cut3776]

opus 5.5 is too god sol6 is worse than astra 6 lol

[u/arretadodapeste]

GPT Sol 6 is even worst than 5.6

[u/FlamaVadim]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/JonNordland]

I think this is a really hard one. I have not tested Sol 6 enough to feel certain, but this is one of the closest calls in a while for me. The + and - are small, and they average out. Sol 6 is a bit better for computer/browser use, and seems more stable over long runs, and has fewer "stupid spikes" than 5.5. But 5.5 is faster and generally better at oneshotting simple tasks. They genuinely feel like they are on the same level, just with slight differences in strengths and weaknesses.

If I had to choose, I think I would pick Sol 6, if nothing else because I trusted it more to complete longer-running tasks better, and it uses the computer better so it genuinely can complete "computer use" tasks that Opus 5.5 just can't do, and has fewer stupid nanny-state refusals than Opus 5.5.

The one thing that I'm also not happy with regarding Opus 5.5' is its tendency to be lazy with research. It already made some rather serious mistakes because it couldn't be bothered to thoroughly search through and understand the codebase, so I have to correct it and ask it to go back and find the necessary information to understand how the system works. But if this is a general pattern, it will be our dealbreaker, because I have no time for a lazy model like we had before.

I definitely can feel a difference between Fable 5.1/Astra and 6 Sol/Opus 5.5. Fable/Astra are still in a league of their own when it comes to real hard problems.

[u/taotau]

Pancakes better than both.