If that is really so, it would be now be good enough to replace claude for us; we use sonnet only; with our setup, use cases and tooling it works as well as opus 4.6, 4.7 so far. We won't replace sonnet as long as they have subscriptions but it is good to have alternatives for when they force pay per use eventually.

This is refreshing right after GPT-5.5's $30

I estimated that even with heavy usage it would cost your around 30-70$ depending on caching at around 40M tokens. That would give you around double the usage compared to gpt-5.5 on the 200$ sub

I believe the R stood for reasoning, just like OpenAI had their own dedicated o1/o3 family, but now every model just has it built-in.

Theoretically with streaming, any model that fit the disk can run on consumer hardware, just terribly slow.