I'm using it now instead of Sonnet for real work every day, since the price drop is much bigger than the quality drop

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cost you only a couple cents

In the thread “IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf]”, replying to this comment

Helped: Lower price and acceptable quality for large, long-running tasks.