Unpopular opinion: Claude Opus 4.6 is NOT the "best coding LLM"
(And neither is GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, or anything else)
The entire "what's the best model?" debate is broken.
Because the real answer is: ALL OF THEM.
↳ Gemini 3 Flash for boilerplate (96% cheaper than Opus)
↳ Claude Sonnet 4.5 for daily coding (balanced + fast)
↳ Opus 4.6 for production bugs (SWE-bench king)
↳ GPT-5.3-Codex for CI bots (Terminal-Bench beast)
↳ DeepSeek V3 when budget matters (insane $/quality ratio)
Opus 4.6 just dropped 2 days ago with massive terminal-agent improvements.
But if you use it for EVERYTHING, you're burning 20x what you should.
I spent sometime analyzing SWE-bench Verified, Terminal-Bench 2.0, pricing, and speed across every major model.
The result? A routing strategy that saves you 75% on costs while IMPROVING output quality.
Full guide with decision tree + charts:
linkedin.com/pulse/which-llm-s...…
Stop asking "which is best?" Start asking "which is best for THIS task?"
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