Event Info
Anthropic
Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5

TL;DR

Developers celebrate Sonnet 5 for its coding capabilities and easy integration, though many express frustration over high pricing and restrictive safety guardrails regarding cybersecurity tasks.

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335 opinions analyzedJul 1, 2026

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Comment distribution

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Comment summary

Coding Capabilities and Performance

46 comments

Users praise the 1M context window and strong agentic abilities, finding it a powerful tool for complex programming and multi-repo tasks.

Pricing and Cost Sustainability

45 comments

Significant criticism focuses on high token costs and introductory pricing models that make it less accessible compared to older Opus models or competitors.

Safety Restrictions and Government Policy

14 comments

Controversy exists regarding the model's limited cybersecurity capabilities, which some users interpret as newspeak for government-mandated censorship or gatekeeping.

Integration and System Adoption

46 comments

Developers are rapidly adopting the model as a drop-in replacement for older versions, noting easy integration into GitHub Copilot and existing API workflows.

Top comments

  • Finally a new sonnet model
    YouTube@FRareDom18View original
  • I have tried to rewrite an article with GLM-5.2 and with Sonnet 4.6. Completely different results as LLM is non-deterministic. But GLM-5.2 made a lot of subtle mistakes that needed to be corrected by hand. On the opposite, Sonnet found and corrected all mistakes in the second round. Similar situation was with planning and coding. GLM-5.2 seems to be good “on paper” but the real usage results was different. And I am not an attorney for Claude or GLM-5.2… :) But as I’ve been using LLM models daily since Nov 2022 I have realized that all common tests have to be confirmed in your project - there is no “one model rules them all” - you need to dig out a specific model from that LLM haystack with thousands of models. Benchmarks help but they start to be similar to fuel consumption specs in car ads - real consumption is different for everybody :)
    Hacker Newssixtyj8View original
  • The limited time I've had to test it so far, it's given me better results than 4.6 and a little quicker, so I think it's a noticeable step up.
    YouTube@MsJason3166View original
  • > Why would they brag about something like this? It's like they know people want to use models to perform cybersecurity tasks yet knowingly deny them the ability. What exactly do you want Anthropic to say here? "This model, the one we are about to give to the entire world for cheap, is really good at hacking"? Saying Sonnet is terrible at cybersecurity is the most reasonable thing they can say, out of a lot of bad options.
    Hacker Newsjohnfn4View original
  • At this point I want Anthropic to go open source just to give the middle to the braindead US government.
    YouTube@OnigoroshiZero4View original
  • They better figure out how to get us Fable back😂
    YouTube@NoLimitSquad3View original
  • fix: support Claude Sonnet 5 adaptive thinking requests — Closes #98386 Related: #98254 ## What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where users selecting Claude Sonnet 5 could hit Anthropic API request failures or lose the requested thinking mode when using default, adaptive, low, or off thinking settings. Claude Sonnet 5 uses Anthropic adaptive thinking se
    GitHubSunjae-k2View original
  • fix(model-core): recognize claude-sonnet-5 as GA 1M-context model (fixes #5788) — ## Summary has a 1M-token context window, but OMO's gate did not recognize it, so fell back to the 200K default on Anthropic providers and triggered compaction roughly 5x too early. ## Root Cause [ ]( gates the 1M window on two regexes: matches neither: the first branch requires immediately after ,
    GitHubMoerAI2View original
  • > And Opus 4.8 is still cheaper for a higher pass rate Unless it spams as much as Opus, I doubt it. Opus 4.8 literally spams text like puke. On a longer run especially if you get cache misses here and there the bulk of the cost is all the extra context it adds.
    Hacker Newsre-thc2View original
  • been using it since it is up and live and man... it is doing it's job like... can code Rust plugins and server managemenet panel and connect plugin settings with panel so you don't need to deal with editing .json files and reloading the plugin to activate changes... I liked it. one shotting everything I asked for like Opus but cheaper or faster? I dk... and usage limit is not dropping that fast
    YouTube@emreguclu48751View original

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