
Review
Claude Sonnet 5: What Changes for Sonnet 4.6 Workloads
What Sonnet 4.6 users should review before moving production workloads to Claude Sonnet 5.
Jessie
•7 min
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What Sonnet 4.6 users should review before moving production workloads to Claude Sonnet 5.

A production routing guide for choosing Grok 4.6 or Kimi K3 by workload, context, deployment control, cost, and fallback requirements.

A developer guide to making a first Claude Opus 5 Messages API call, managing thinking and effort, migrating from Opus 4.8, handling production failures, and routing Claude models by workload.