Opus 5 now costs more per task than GPT-6 Astra.
Astra $2.57. Opus 5 higher. Rest of the chart: Luna $1.10, Muse Spark $0.96, Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.74 — a release from the same week nobody covered because Astra ate the news cycle. Cost per task, not per-token list price.
Google just released its THIRD Flash model in 6 weeks — and it benchmarks within 0.3 points of Claude Opus 5.
We tested Gemini 3.8 Flash against Qwen3.8-Flash. The gap between benchmarks and reality is instructive:
Claude Opus 5 is crazy for web design.
Prompt ↓
What happens when you send a message to AI?
IPhone + Opus 5 + 6 hrs + 1600 lines of code = animation of Inside AI
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