@PrajwalTomar_: $500 in 4 hours. That's what Fable 5 costs when you give it the wrong job. This tweet has been stuck in my head since I…
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Discussion about Fable 5's high cost and a strategy to split workloads between expensive and cheap models to reduce expenses.
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$500 in 4 hours. That’s what Fable 5 costs when you give it the wrong job.
This tweet has been stuck in my head since I read it. Everyone in the replies is blaming the pricing, and I think that’s the wrong lesson. Fable was never priced to be your daily driver.
At $10 per million input and $50 per million output, it’s the most expensive judgment on the market. And you buy judgment in small doses.
So here’s the split I’m locking in before it leaves tonight. Fable writes the plan and reviews the final diff, a few thousand tokens of pure judgment. GPT 5.6 does the actual typing at half the price. Luna grinds the small stuff for pennies. Same output, a fraction of the bill.
The $500 burn comes from letting your most expensive model type. Let it think instead.
Full setup in my article below.
Alex Finn (@AlexFinn): Fable 5 is a revolutionary model. I just don’t understand how it survives.
When my usage limit ran out, I spent $500 in credits in 4 hours.
The pricing is illogical
No average person will pay this price. Enterprises won’t either. They are already starting to adopt dirt cheap
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