I tried to make Opus 5.5 cheaper with a cheap coding subagent, but It got worse and more expensive
TL;DR: On 12 hard coding tasks, Opus alone solved 81% at $1.20/task. Opus + DeepSeek V4.1 Flash solved 67% at $1.29. I tried 7 team designs (41 setups, ~1,200 runs). None beat Opus alone, and most cost more. Why I did this. Opus is great but expensive. I was looking for one of two things: a team th…
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- 2026-11-03 18:10 · r/ClaudeAI
I tried to make Opus 5.5 cheaper with a cheap coding subagent, but It got worse and more expensive