Upgrade Intelligence
Data-driven decisions when new models release
New Model Released: New Model Released: Claude Opus 4.5 (released 2 days ago)
Shorely has completed benchmarking against your task library.
Upgrade Report: Claude Opus 4.5
Tested against your real workloads from the last 30 days.
Tasks Benchmarked
214
Quality Improvement
+7% avg
Cost Impact
+22% per token
$0.015 → $0.0183 per 1K input
Net Monthly Impact
+$10,400/mo
if applied to all current Opus usage
Recommendation by Team
| Team | Recommendation | Reasoning | Cost Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| ML/AI | Upgrade | 18% quality improvement on complex ML tasks justifies cost | +$3,200/mo |
| Platform | Hold | 4% quality improvement doesn't justify 22% cost increase | +$0 |
| Frontend | Hold | No meaningful quality difference for frontend tasks | +$0 |
| Mobile | Hold | 2% improvement, tasks better suited for Sonnet regardless | +$0 |
| DevOps | Upgrade | 12% improvement on infrastructure-as-code tasks | +$1,800/mo |
| Data | Evaluate | Mixed results — 15% better on analysis, comparable on ETL | +$1,400/mo |
Key Insight
Only 2 of 6 teams would meaningfully benefit from upgrading to Opus 4.5. Selective upgrade saves $5,400/month compared to a blanket upgrade while capturing 85% of the quality gains.
Historical Upgrade Decisions
Sonnet 4.0 → Sonnet 4.5
3 months ago
Recommendation: Full upgrade
Result: 15% quality improvement, 5% cost decrease
✅ Good call
GPT-4o → GPT-4o-2025-01
6 weeks ago
Recommendation: Hold for all teams
Result: Minimal improvement, 10% cost increase
✅ Saved $4,700/mo