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Claude Sonnet 3.5
by Anthropic
CLOSEDHOSTEDCODING ASSISTANTWRITING HELPPROBLEM SOLVINGGENERAL ASSISTANT
RANKED #65 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #108 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.2 · 1,095 VOICES
A smart helper for everyday writing, problem solving, and writing code.
HAPPY8.5
236 mentions
SAD6.5
91 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 213 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Anthropic hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Claude Sonnet 3.5 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS5.4
Llama 4 MaverickMetaPick for top tier multimodal coding and reasoning with open weights.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE💸 COST EFFICIENT1.9k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.5
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaPick for fast private coding and vision tasks on consumer hardware.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS💻 STRONG AT CODE5.7k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.5Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuPick for omni multimodal reasoning across vision and audio with low cost.💸 COST EFFICIENT🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE2.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users love Claude Sonnet 3.5 for its strong coding skills and natural writing style, often finding it worth the price. However, people are frustrated by frequent outages, usage limits, occasional hallucinations, and preachy refusals.
858 POSTS · 237 COMMENTS · REDDIT · X · DEV.TO · GITHUB · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (17 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (8 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (4 mentions)
- Stable and dependable (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Sometimes makes things up (9 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codeMOSTLY POSITIVE
17 thumbs up · 8 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
8 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 9 thumbs down
- WritingPEOPLE LOVE THIS
4 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Working when you need itMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“I thought Chatgpt 4o was good at coding until I tried Claude sonnet 3.5.”
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GLM 5.3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2024-12-06 · 2599 UPVOTESI spent 8 hours testing o1 Pro ($200) vs Claude Sonnet 3.5 ($20) - Here's what nobody tells you about the real-world performance difference
I spent 8 hours testing o1 Pro ($200) vs Claude Sonnet 3.5 ($20) - Here's what nobody tells you about the real-world performance difference
- REDDIT · 2024-06-20 · 1283 UPVOTESAnthropicAI: Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet
AnthropicAI: Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- REDDIT · 2024-10-22 · 1190 UPVOTESIntroducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
- REDDIT · 2024-11-20 · 806 UPVOTESChinese o1 competitor (DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview) thinks for over 6 minutes! (Even GPT4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet couldn't solve this)
Chinese o1 competitor (DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview) thinks for over 6 minutes! (Even GPT4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet couldn't solve this)
- REDDIT · 2025-01-05 · 581 UPVOTESBoys… I think we’re cooked
Boys… I think we’re cooked
- REDDIT · 2024-06-24 · 529 UPVOTESAfter trying Claude 3.5 Sonnet, I cannot believe I ever used GPT 4o
After trying Claude 3.5 Sonnet, I cannot believe I ever used GPT 4o
- LEMMY · 2026-08-10 · 454 UPVOTESClaude vs Claude
Claude vs Claude
- REDDIT · 2024-11-26 · 424 UPVOTES"Claude 3.5 Sonnet ... is better than every junior and most mid level media buyers / strategists I have worked with"
"Claude 3.5 Sonnet ... is better than every junior and most mid level media buyers / strategists I have worked with"
- REDDIT · 2024-06-20 · 419 UPVOTESClaude 3.5 Sonnet
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- REDDIT · 2024-08-04 · 407 UPVOTESAnthropic founder estimates there's a 30% chance Claude could be fine-tuned to autonomously replicate and spread on its own without human…
Anthropic founder estimates there's a 30% chance Claude could be fine-tuned to autonomously replicate and spread on its own without human guidance
- REDDIT · 2024-12-18 · 325 UPVOTESClaude has finally been dethroned as the best Coding model but only barely - o1's Livebench scores are insane
Claude has finally been dethroned as the best Coding model but only barely - o1's Livebench scores are insane
- REDDIT · 2024-06-25 · 302 UPVOTESClaude 3.5 sonnet propose a magnetic 🧲 powered wind turbine then it conjure up some animated blueprint/ concept. Can this actually be a…
Claude 3.5 sonnet propose a magnetic 🧲 powered wind turbine then it conjure up some animated blueprint/ concept. Can this actually be a real thing. I think not, just seem too simple. What you guys think.