alt Hacker NewsTbh we'll see what using it looks like, but the reasoning/cost charts do not look promising. It seems like the only useful reasoning level for Sonnet 5 is Low; medium might trade blows at price/performance with Opus, but anything beyond that Opus is Just Better.
I struggle to understand where this model fits in. If I need a cheap model for simple stuff (like, summarizing an email); I'd go Haiku (actually, I'd go Deepseek v4 Flash, but you catch my drift). I just can't think of many tasks where I'm like "yeah let me reach for Sonnet Low Reasoning so I can save a dollar but also seriously run the risk of it failing"; I'd just reach for Opus Low.
Kind of crazy how bad this release actually is. I even dug around in the full system card, and every graph showed the same thing.
Low and maybe medium will save money on simpler tasks, but after that it just isn’t worth it compared to Opus.
I wish they would have explained in the blog post why they think anybody would ever want to use this above medium.
Maybe it works well on things that aren’t clear in the benchmarks.