Post by Context Studios - AI Development Studio & Agency Berlin

We've shipped OpenClaw across client engagements for months, swapping models as new ones land. Here's what actually works — and what doesn't. This 7-slide breakdown covers: 1/ The 3 traits benchmarks don't measure (but decide everything in OpenClaw) 2/ Sonnet 4.6 — why it's our default and where it falls short 3/ Opus 4.7 — the escalation path for hard bugs + high-stakes tasks 4/ GPT-5.5 — strong coder, wrong harness (use in Codex CLI) 5/ DeepSeek V4 — promising for bulk work, not yet prod-ready 6/ Workload matrix — match model to task, escalate on retry 7/ How to set up your model cascade + escalation rules TL;DR: Sonnet 4.6 default. Opus 4.7 on retry. GPT-5.5 in Codex CLI. DeepSeek V4 in evaluation. Full field guide: https://lnkd.in/d2Bd2A9q #OpenClaw #AIModels #Claude #Anthropic #AIAgents #EnterpriseAI #AI2026