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Claude Sonnet 5 matches Opus at half the cost; Copilot goes native on JetBrains
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 launches at $2/$10 per million tokens, matching Opus 4.8 on coding and agentic benchmarks. GitHub Copilot now integrates natively into JetBrains IDEs without plugins. Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image model arrives on Vercel's AI Gateway at half the previous price.
Meridian48 take
Sonnet 5's pricing is a temporary lure to migrate users before August 31, but the real story is that Opus-level performance is now a commodity at Sonnet prices.
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