Claude Sonnet 4.6 just released. Greatest model for OpenClaw ever?

Wow, I'm really impressed. Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 4. 6 and is faster, cheaper, and just as good as Opus at most agentic tasks. This means you're going to get way more usage out of OpenClaw and Claude Code for a fraction of the price. But should this be your new main model? Is it time to get rid of Opus? In this video, I'll break down every single difference between Claude Sonnet 46 and Opus. I'll go over how to use this in OpenClaw. I'll give you two mindblowing use cases you can use Claude sonnet 4. 64 today right now in openclaw and I'll let you know if it's time to switch over to sonnet. Now let's lock in and get into

it. So real quick let's go through the differences between sonnet and opus and where there are improvements to be made. The big takeaway for you here is sonnet is not better at opus than any specific thing but it is just as good as opus 46 when it comes to agentic task specifically. So you look at agentic computer use 72. 5% versus 72. 7 basically exactly the same. This is massive because this means it is just as good as a brain for tools like openclaw and clawed code. But this is going to be a fifth of the price. Sonnet is price as Opus. When Opus 45 dropped a few months ago, the entire world agreed it was like the most revolutionary model of all time. This is better in almost every single way than Opus 45. Opus 45 felt like kind of an AGI moment. And this is better than that for a fifth of the price. Now, is it as good as 46? It lacks in coding. It is not quite as good at coding, but when it comes to computer use, agentic tool use, scaled tool use, in office tasks, which are basically the main components of what most people are doing with OpenClaw at the moment and many other big agentic tools. It is just as good, if not slightly better. So, you're getting just as good computer use, just as good tool use, better at simple office tasks like creating spreadsheets, editing spreadsheets, creating presentations, but you're getting it significantly faster than Opus and a fifth of the price, which has been a big issue. The biggest complaint I get about OpenClaw at the moment is if you are using Anthropic, it is just too expensive. You either use the OOTH and get kicked off or you use the API and you're spending hundreds of dollars a day. Up to this point, Opus 46 was really the only usable model for Open Claw, but this changes everything. You're going to get basically the same quality at a fifth of the price. This is bigger than you think cuz the fact that you can now use it five times as much as Opus means you can get five times more use out of the most powerful AI tool ever created, which means you can create a lot more economic power for yourself. Before you were probably scared to run this overnight, for it to code for long sessions, for it to manipulate things on your computer for a long time, for it to search X and Reddit for hours at a time finding trends because it could rack up literally thousands of dollars of charges. Now with Sonnet 46, that changes everything. Now you can say, "Take a look at X and Reddit every hour for the next few days and find all the trends and then build apps based on those trends. " You can do that now. So, this is going to unlock a whole new suite of use cases for a vast majority of users. But the question becomes this, should this replace everything you do with Opus? And what are certain situations where you should use one instead of the other? Let me tell you

right now. Here is when you're going to want to use it. So, when do you want to use Sonnet 46? it as your main model for open claw. I can't think of basically any scenario in which you're going to want to keep opus as your main model. Whether you're on OOTH still or whether you're using the API especially, you're going to want to use Sonnet 46 as your main model. I'll also go through in just a minute here how to set this up so it switches to Sonnet 46 for you. I know a lot of people even on the $200 plan of Claude that were hitting their limits with Opus. You're probably not going to hit your limits anymore. If you're on Claude Code and you're on the $200 plan, you're definitely going to want to use Sonnet for more of the simple tasks, right? So, if you're doing planning or you're implementing a really big component that you want to oneshot, go with Opus. But if you're doing more minor changes, you're changing button colors, you're changing layouts, you're creating a new API, you probably want to go with Sonnet because it's going to save you a lot of money and get you a lot more usage. And if you're on the API and you're paying for every single thing you do, you're definitely going to be wanting to use Sonnet 46 for basically everything. If you're below the $200 a month plan, so you're on the $100 month plan or the $200 month plan, you're going to be using Sonnet 46 for everything. It's going to get you way more usage. Opus is going to use basically your entire plan up in a day if you're on the $100 plan or the $20 plan. So Sonnet is the way to go. If you're below 200, you want to do it for all simple tasks. If you're at the $200 plan, and if you're on OpenClaw, you need to switch out your model to make 4. 6 your brain. I added one more thing here. Coding. This is a big question I get cuz a lot of people have their open claw do coding for them. I'm still leaning on codeex 52 for coding specifically inside openclaw. You're just going to get a lot more usage. It's still much cheaper than all the claude models and it will save you on your claude plan. So coding for openclaw specifically still leaning on codecs but for claude code sonnet and all the simple use cases. I truly believe they built this model sonnet 46 specifically for agentic use cases like openclaw like claude co-work and like the claude code SDK I think they clearly see where this world is going everyone is building agentic rappers now everyone's building agents that can manipulate spreadsheets connect to different tools and opus simply was not scalable enough it was too expensive it was too slow it was not really built for agents I think this is their model 46 where they go, "No, for agents, you're using us. You're using Sonnet 46. " It was clearly trained with agents in mind. And just from an economic perspective, you're going to save so much money for it. I mean, they even tested it with financial analysis, and it is significantly better than any other model ever made, specifically for financial analysis. And that is like a fast ball down the center AI agent use case. I mean, if you look at the blog post, literally the first thing they talk about is computer use. So, this is clearly made to be a model that controls your computer and does things for you and replaces human beings. They even advertise this as a replacement for human beings in the tweet. This is pretty incredible, too. From the vending bench arena test, which basically says, "Hey, control this shop and see how much money you can make. " Sonnet 46 made significantly more money than 45. If you watch this channel, you know I'm building autonomous organization powered by OpenClaw and other AI models. this is the perfect model to plug in and try to create more economic value with. So, let's do two things. One, I'm going to show you how to switch over your OpenClaw to Sonnet 46. And then I'm going to show you two new use cases you can do inside OpenClaw that are going to be super powerful and are purpose-built for Sonnet 46. Let's get into that. If you've learned anything so far, by the way, leave a like down below. Make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications. All I do is create incredible videos about AI as well as AI agents. And if you want, I'm going to do a full live boot camp on Sonnet 46 this Friday in the Vibe Coding Academy. Link for that down below. You can join, hang out with me, ask me questions live, DM me, whatever you want. It's all in the Vibe Coding Academy. Comes with a ton of other learning materials, too. It's simply the best place to learn about AI.

As for switching your OpenClaw over to Sonnet 46, this is super simple. Take this prompt, which I'll put down below, give it to your open claw. Enthropic just released Clawson Sonnet 46. Please switch our main brain model over to this. Please check out the blog post here for more information. Then it has a link to the blog post. Your open claw should go and switch its own model for you and upgrade you to 46. This works in most circumstances. For some people, I've seen it break openclaw. But don't you worry, take a deep breath. There's a fix for that as well. You just open claude code inside your open claw folder. So, open a terminal, cd into your open claw folder, and then open up claude code. Then you just tell cla code, hey, open claw broke when we were trying to change its config to a new model. Please fix it for us. And claude code will go and fix it for you and make sure you're good. There's some cases where this upgrade hasn't worked, but when you put claw code on it, it's upgraded it basically every time. So

here is the first use case I want to show you that is built for Sonnet 4. 6 six inside openclaw that I think everyone watching this should run immediately after you upgrade to sonnet 46. Use a last 30 skill to find use cases people are using with openclaw on X and Reddit. Draft three new skills we can implement that reflect good use cases you found. I'll choose a winning one to implement. So a few things here. The last 30 skill is a skill by Matt Van Horn is an excellent skill that teaches your open claw how to find trending content on X and Reddit. Basically, what we're having OpenClaw do here is search X and Reddit for different ways people are using OpenClaw. Then, our OpenClaw is going to draft a new skill for itself to self-improve based on the use cases it finds. And then, we're going to choose a skill for it to implement. So, it improves itself and makes itself more capable. Here's a pro version of this before I show you what this looks like when we run it. At the very end, if you want, if you want to kick this up a notch, say, "Run this every morning at 2:00 a. m. " So now, every morning, your open claw is going to go and find new ways people are using OpenClaw on X and Reddit. So that you're going to automate your OpenClaw improving every single morning. So you run this and watch what happens. All right, so here we go. It found a few use cases people are doing on social media recently, and it has three new skills drafted up for us that we can get implemented. a health dashboard. So, a Whoop integration or Apple Health or Aura or Fitbit where it generates a daily health brief every morning based on your sleep score, recovery, HRV. This is great if you have an Apple Watch or a Whoop. This will give you a brand new custom health dashboard every single morning, which is pretty amazing. A smart home commander. So, this is a skill that actually links to your HomeKit or Home Assistant. So, if you have a Google Home or an Apple Home or HomePod or anything like that, this will actually connect to all your home devices. So, you can say things like, "Change the light bulbs or whatever, and it actually dim the lights and things like that. " That's a pretty cool skill. And then a social growth engine. This monitors Reddit X and LinkedIn for relevant discussions in your niche, drafts thoughtful replies, and tracks which posts and replies perform well. So, it seems like a way to automate a lot of your social media. And this is the best part. Your open call will actually recommend which is the best based on what it knows about you. So for me, it's recommending the social growth engine. Now all I need to do is choose one of these and it'll implement the skill for me and we're good to go. Just like that, your open claw self-improved link for both the prompt and the last 30 skill you need for this down below. Here is a second use case I love for sonnet 46 because again, it's going to be a lot faster and cheaper. Take a look at the creator buddy codebase. This could be any codebase you have, any app you've ever vibe coded. Find new features to build and build a prototype. Have this scheduled for every night. This is one of my favorite use cases for Sonnet 46 because now every night our agent is going to build us new functionality in our vibecoded apps. This is great and much improved at Sonnet 46 because it can load up your entire codebase into context. It now has a 1 million context window. So this will be cheaper, faster, and better. And now every morning when we wake up, our agent is going to have us built out a prototype for new features and functionality in our apps. So now our apps are basically self-improving while we sleep. I love all prompts and commands to give to OpenClaw that makes it self-improving every night. This is the big difference between like an OpenClaw and like a chatbot. Chat bots are just back and forth. This use case for OpenClaw makes it do things for us every single night and constantly self-improve. I will put the prompt for this one down below. You just replace Creator Buddy with whatever vibe coded app you're currently working on at the moment. It is absolutely critical you go right now and you implement Sonnet 46 in your OpenClaw or start using Sonnet 46 in Clawed Code or whatever you're doing. You need to be using the latest tech the moment it drops cuz that's where the opportunity is. Right now, there's not going to be a ton of people using Sonnet 46 and OpenClaw, but the people using it can get way more usage out of OpenClaw, which means they can produce so much more economic value. So, the time to strike is now. The time to use these tools is right now while people still haven't even figured out it's out yet. Go and use it. All the prompts down below. I hope you learned something in this video. If you did, leave a like, subscribe, turn on notifications. I drop the latest workflows and AI news the moment it happens. link for Vibe Coding Academy if you want a bunch of live and recorded boot camps down below and I will see you in the next