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Why Claude Opus 5.5 Is Overkill (And When You Actually Need It)

I watched a team spend $150,000 a year on Claude Opus. For classification tasks. "Is this a bug, feature request, or complaint?" Sonnet can do this perfectly. So can Haiku. But they defaulted to Opus because it "sounds better." Nobody ran the numbers. The Cost Reality At 10,000 requests per day: Op…

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  1. 2026-11-04 14:20 · DEV Community — AI
    Why Claude Opus 5.5 Is Overkill (And When You Actually Need It)

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