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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

420 points · 270 comments · apitman

theropost · 1786045967 · focus · HN ↗
Anthropic is a bit nuts, I had $260 of credits on my max account for the extra usage the other night. It was expiring, so I figured I'll fire up an agentic swarm to deep dive and make some deep changes to some old cold bases.. literally 25 minutes or less, $260 burnt, it didn't get get into the implementation, just wrote a ton of useless plans for the most part. It really opened my eyes to what they expect to charge people.. wayyyy overpriced.
1. cortesoft · 1786046184 · focus · HN ↗
  It’s crazy how different the credit cost and subscription cost are.
  With the $200 subscription, I can have Fable on ultracode working for hours and not dent the usage limits.
  1. AlexandrB · 1786047695 · focus · HN ↗
    VCs are footing the bill for that $200 subscription.
    riknos314 · 1786054615 · focus · HN ↗
    The $200 sub is customer acquisition cost to hook devs that then become the marketing team trying to get their company to bring in Claude (at the highly profitable API price).

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