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>BTW Anthropic Claude 3.7 is better than o3-mini at coding at around 62-70% [1]. This means that I'll stick with Claude 3.7 for the time being for my open source alternative to Claude-code

That's not a fair comparison as o3-mini is significantly cheaper. It's fine if your employer is paying, but on a personal project the cost of using Claude through the API is really noticeable.




> That's not a fair comparison as o3-mini is significantly cheaper. It's fine if your employer is paying...

I use it via Cursor editor's built-in support for Claude 3.7. That caps the monthly expense to $20. There probably is a limit in Claude for these queries. But I haven't run into it yet. And I am a heavy user.


Agentic coders (e.g. aider, Claude-code, mycoder, codebuff, etc.) use a lot more tokens, but they write whole features for you and debug your code.


If open ai offers a more expensive model (4.5) and a cheaper model (3 mini) and both are worse, it starts to be a fair comparison




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