My favorite model to work with, after abliterated open weight SOTAs, is Opus 4.6. But I’ve been struggling to get back the 1M context that I loved. Around when Opus 4.8 came out, claude code started limiting opus 4.8 with 200k context tokens. And said my plan (max 20x) does not allow this model when I tried /model claude-opus-4-6[1m], and similar.
The simplest fix i found is: changing the model to claude-opus-4-6[1m] in ~/.claude/settings.json
PS, Reasons why I think opus 4.6 is better (iykyk):
- Very loose guardrails. With the right set up, you can get it to work on ANYTHING. It will comply, and even suggest improvements with your architecture (like any other project)
- Higher quality output than 4.8 or especially 4.7. haven’t tested Opus 5 yet.
- Does not overthink. Looking at its reasoning, there’s way less “WAIT—”, “PAUSE—”, etc after making a stupidly overcomplicated decision
- Obviously you can’t expect SOTA reasoning on long horizon/vague tasks, but if you know what you’re doing, you’ll love it. submitted by /u/solovaris
Originally posted by u/solovaris on r/ClaudeCode
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