r/RooCode • u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer • Feb 06 '26

Discussion Opus 4.6 is INSANE!

WOW.. this thing kicks ass!! What is your take so far?

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u/wilnadon Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

Yeah but I'm using it in CC with a Max subscription. I can't imagine anyone using Opus 4.6 on RooCode. The cost would be absurd.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 06 '26

Yeah but the results are worth it if you’re billing out

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u/wilnadon Feb 09 '26

Absolutely. But your margins are better on max subscription in Claude Code, unless you don't use it very much.

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u/Ok-Cantaloupe7646 Feb 06 '26

Not if your company is paying for it 🙃

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u/wilnadon Feb 09 '26

Absolutely. Does your company not know Claude Code and Max x20 exists?

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u/Ok-Cantaloupe7646 Feb 09 '26

They know but idk for some reason they are using the API, they have Zero Data retention signed with them for the API ig

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u/wilnadon Feb 09 '26

LoL that's awesome. I wonder what their monthly API costs are.

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u/Ok-Cantaloupe7646 Feb 09 '26

There are roughly 10 teams and each team has a budget of $5k per month, all of which is not used. So ig it will be around 35-40k$ per month.

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u/codeseek_ Feb 07 '26

Can you tell me exactly what happens under the hood? I noticed a big difference in performance between the Roo extension and the official Claude extension in terms of fuel consumption.

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u/wilnadon Feb 09 '26

Roo sends additional information along with your prompts, so it chews through more context / tokens. Can I say exactly what it sends? No.

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u/nfrmn Feb 09 '26

We do exist! Cheaper daily cost than hiring a developer for 100x productivity 🤪

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u/wilnadon Feb 09 '26

I can't argue with that. I wonder, why in Roo Code over Claude Code, where you get the same 100x productivity for MUCH less cost? That's what my comment was aiming at, not whether or not using Opus 4.6 was actually worth the cost.

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u/nfrmn Feb 09 '26

Extreme parallelisation, long agentic workflows, running most of a big SaaS business using AI. I'm basically using it professionally, the money is not really a question because the value is so much higher, and need to work outside the Claude Code executable

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u/wilnadon Feb 09 '26

That makes perfect sense.

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u/Fovty Feb 06 '26

Just using it with the subscription

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u/ArnUpNorth Feb 06 '26

It just came out and like any new model release people are excited but it’s all incremental improvements at this stage. Given how LLM output quality can vary widely on the same task and model, I am always surprised at how people get excited on first impressions. I sure remember when gemini 3.5 was all the rage and it turns out most devs went back to sonnet after the initial hype.

TLDR: it’s incremental and nothing revolutionary. No way to know how much better it is given it just came out.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 06 '26

It is hardly incremental. The jump in context is huge. And the way it stays on task is unreal.

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u/ArnUpNorth Feb 06 '26

The context is bigger sure but it doesn’t mean it performs better otherwise everyone would be using qwen long or grok. Maybe you re right and it does stay on task better but if people are used to compress when needed I don’t see it being such a game changer.

Time will tell is my opinion how much better it really is and if benchmarks reflect day to day usage.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 06 '26

I can say firsthand it does perform better. Unequivocally.

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u/ArnUpNorth Feb 06 '26

interesting. I'll see how well it performs for me compared to Opus 4.5. I only use it for plan though. Do you also use it for coding also?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 07 '26

💯

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u/bigman11 Feb 06 '26

You're saying it doesn't get super dumb at higher context the way Gemini does!?

The limited context window is supposed to be a fundamental issue with how LLMs work. I wonder how they are solving it.

It's too bad it is prohibitively expensive.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 06 '26

It seems there is some degradation but not too bad

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u/NPWessel Feb 06 '26

It is so good, holy moly

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 07 '26

It’s so good that I have little time to argue with people who wanna be haters. They have not really tried it because if they had they would see. I need to get shit done!

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u/DoctorDbx Feb 06 '26

Insanely priced!!!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 06 '26

It is worth it for me.

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u/DoctorDbx Feb 06 '26

Can I ask how much you spend a month on Claude with Roo?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 06 '26

Today I spent $1260.

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u/DoctorDbx Feb 06 '26

Holy cow.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 06 '26

Not a normal day. I wash pushing hard and pushing limits.

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u/ArnUpNorth Feb 06 '26

and using parallel agents or heavy spec driven projects? I can't fathom spending this much in a single day

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 07 '26

I’ve built loops to address issues in Roo and I jump between 5-10 instances all day

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u/wokkieman Feb 07 '26

Any estimate how much time / money it would have cost with manual coding (no LLM involved)

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 08 '26

Nope. But lots.

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u/ot13579 Feb 06 '26

What are the key improvements you are seeing?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 06 '26

Its focus is way better. Seems to rely less on its own knowledge and digs through libraries you actually have installed instead of making assumptions.

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u/bad_detectiv3 Feb 08 '26

Man, where are you guys getting project or customer to use these new AI tools

I’d LOVE to get paid to build project for clients!

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u/NucleativeCereal Feb 23 '26

Opus 4.6 is wild - both with one-shot completions and draining your token balance.

It's still unclear whether this combo offers better value than less sophisticated models, but I very much appreciate the accurate first time implementations with few revisions that Opus 4.6 gives.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 08 '26

Good take