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YesClaude · 26 Jun 2026

Opus 4.8 High effort seems adequate for me currently, at API pricing, with a $200/month budget

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Helped: API pricing and specific task type.

Opus 4.8 High effort seems adequate for me currently, at API pricing, with a $200/month budget. This is at work where I don't work on greenfield or parallelize feature development. …