maybe gp's use of the word "lots" is unwarranted

https://artificialanalysis.ai indicates that sonnect 4.6 beats opus 4.6 on GDPval-AA, Terminal-Bench Hard, AA Long context Reasoning, IFBench.

see: https://artificialanalysis.ai/?models=claude-sonnet-4-6%2Ccl...

except for the webarena-verified

https://artificialanalysis.ai should have the numbers soon

read here: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-4-thinking/disallo...

gp, like OP, are moving away from USA based infrastructure.

you ca see this on the footer of porkbun.com:

> Made in the USA