Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

Post by hmottestad » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 4:48 AM UTC

stilesja wrote: post #121

cheema33 wrote: post #80

> Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost I am guessing this is not targeting those of us on the heavily subsidized $200/mo plans. Sure, these plans may be temporary, but none of us really know how temporary they are. Until then, 1/3rd of the published API pricing is not very appealing.

I burned though my weekly fable usage last night on the $200 plan. I had $200 in promotional usage credits and was in the middle of executing a moderate sized coding plan. Ran on usage credits for about 1h 15m and burned $120 in usage credits. I was astounded to see how fast the $ usage added up. One problem was that I was using sub-agent execution so multiple agents were running simultaneously and I realized at the…

Post by DougN7 » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 4:55 AM UTC

jambalaya8 wrote: post #150

stilesja wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I burned though my weekly fable usage last night on the $200 plan. I had $200 in promotional usage credits and was in the middle of executing a moderate sized coding plan. Ran on usage credits for about 1h 15m and burned $120 in usage credits. I was astounded to see how fast the $ usage added up. One problem was that I was using sub-agent execution so multiple agents were running simultaneously and I realized at the…

I am too young (most of us on here are) to have lived through the paying for time on time-share machines in the 60s/70s, but this is giving me creepy memories of paying for sprintnet/telenet and tymnet... And I guess aol, compuserv, delphi. Are we really doing this computing model again?

Post by nl » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 5:06 AM UTC

byzantinegene wrote: post #131

monk_grilla wrote: post #104

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I imagine that most small to medium sized businesses are on either individual plans or Teams plans. The vast majority of firms do not need more than 150 seats, and API rates are not sustainable for most.

if this is true, the frontier labs are not able to justify their trillion dollar valuations, they are barely making anything on subsidized plans.

Post by nl » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 5:14 AM UTC

agar wrote: post #154

MertsA wrote: post #152

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That's going to be on the $20 plan. IIRC the $100 and $200 plans keep the 50% fable usage.

I'm on Teams and Fable is now usage credit only.

Post by sudo_cowsay » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 5:43 AM UTC