How To Optimize Your Usage: The Best AI Models to Use, version 3.0

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I can use Opus 4.5/Sonet 4.5 thinking at a cheaper price

Hi everyone, We will have to pay for both input and output. Input is usually cheaper than output, but input is cached while output is not. This means you will pay 100% token fees for output. So, if we instruct the Agent to minimize output, we will save a lot of tokens. The rule I created aims to minimize the Agent’s output while maintaining maximum reasoning/logic/code/intelligence, and avoiding wasteful token behaviors such as summarizing tasks after completion, creating unnecessary .md and .t…

only use Claude Sonnet/Opus thinking model belike