… Claude Code Pro users now need to purchase extra usage to unlock the Opus models On the Claude Support page for Claude Code model configuration , the company has added a new condition for using Opus on Claude Code. …
… OpenAI thinks so, too, as the statistics they published have it ranked above Claude in every category. Despite what their stats say, my personal experience with the models tells a different story. …
… That usually means the model is either overkill or underpowered for the task. In the Claude app, switching the model forces you into a new session, breaking the flow; the Claude Code CLI handles it differently. It ships with a built-in /model command to switch instantly without breaking the flow. …
… Claude Code effectively assumes that Anthropic's models will remain the best choice forever, or at least good enough that users won't care about alternatives. But even now, with recent version updates from Google and OpenAI, I am able to see Claude isn’t the only model worth using. …
… Just in the past few days alone, the company launched Claude Design, routines in Claude Code, Claude for Word, Managed Agents, released Cowork generally and the list goes on. For many, the most anticipated release in the entire wave was Anthropic's newest flagship model, Opus 4.7 . …
… Claude 2 launched with a 100,000-token context window, which was remarkable at the time. This allowed users to feed in entire books or massive codebases for analysis, setting Claude apart from many competing models. Not quite. The standout feature of Claude 2 was its 100,000-token context window. …
… Claude Code doesn't care where the model lives If it speaks Anthropic's API, it works Claude Code is, at its core, a client that speaks the Anthropic Messages API. It doesn't actually verify that there's a Claude model on the other end. …
… Most of the models, however, fall short when it comes to dynamic visualization, and even the flagship models from OpenAI and Google are no exceptions to this rule. Claude's recent additions are set to change this pattern. …
… And perhaps most crucially of all, it was the only model in the test to catch the sneaky wall collision logic on lines 818-819. Anthropic takes the debugging crown Claude's perfect score speaks for itself, but besides that, perhaps what's most telling is how each model approached the problem. …
… Another increasingly popular approach is the Model Context Protocol, better known as MCP. Instead of storing information inside Claude Code, MCP allows Claude to access external sources of information whenever it needs them. …