Sunday, February 1, 2026
Sonnet 5 Speculation
Users are speculating about the upcoming release of Claude Sonnet 5, hoping it will surpass previous models like Opus 4.5 and be comparable to Codex in performance and cost-effectiveness for coding tasks.
Sonnet 5 is rumored to come out next week. It would be *really* nice if Sonnet were better than Opus and somehow as good as Codex. I like working with Claude Code a lot more, but I canβt take the intelligence drop.
About 30 a day on sonnet 4.5. Building stuff at 4x the cost of claude code. This will be a fun week, then I will turn the heart beat from every 30 minutes to every 6 hours and never use it to build. Maybe Turn it off entirely. Or run it on a much cheaper model and actually only
We're right around the corner for the 1 year anniversary of Claude code's release. Sonnet 5 release would be poetic. Feb 25, 2025