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Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive

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Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive

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Post by verdverm »

minimaxir wrote: post #20
verdverm wrote: post #2

OpenCode has a generous $10 plan for open weight models, I'm quite happy with it https://opencode.ai/docs/go/ Fireworks.ai has a $50 plan in early access https://docs.fireworks.ai/firepass I'm shopping around for more good deals like this, I'm long on open weights and sour on Big Ai

None of those models are Fable's class. There are definitely many cheaper options for LLM agents, but people are paying attention to Fable for a reason.

People are also paying attention to open models for a reason, they are around 6-9 months behind and far cheaper. Fable output looks like a modest improvement, certainly not 2x like the price. We'll have similar models we can run ourselves by this time next year

Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive

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Post by queenkjuul »

Doesn't even seem that great, to me. Granted it was one day of work where i didn't use it particularly heavily. But i tried to lean into the "use a background agent for everything" thing but i didn't get a ton done past what i had to do by hand (manually deploying changes, testing them, moving on: we're switching hosting providers, gotta make sure updates keep rolling, no way for Claude to do it outside handing over the prod S3 keys which, not even Fable lol)

Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive

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Post by queenkjuul »

verdverm wrote: post #21
minimaxir wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

None of those models are Fable's class. There are definitely many cheaper options for LLM agents, but people are paying attention to Fable for a reason.

People are also paying attention to open models for a reason, they are around 6-9 months behind and far cheaper. Fable output looks like a modest improvement, certainly not 2x like the price. We'll have similar models we can run ourselves by this time next year

Truly. Corporate can pay Fable price if they want, but I'm not impressed. I'll wait til next year

Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive

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Post by moltar »

_345 wrote: post #11
tristanj wrote: post #9

Currently Fable is available through Chinese resellers at around ~$17.50/1M tokens, or about a 65% discount vs API prices. Still expensive compared to Opus.

... how. how is that even possible. pirated usage plans?

Maybe from all those stolen API keys?

Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive

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Post by 3stacks »

Can anyone account for the wild inconsistency between people's reports of session usage? I would hear stories of people saying they burned their weekly quota in 30 minutes, and then there's this post. Yet I used Fable exclusively today across multiple work projects fairly extensively and haven't cracked 20%.

Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive

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Post by gaws »

verdverm wrote: post #2

OpenCode has a generous $10 plan for open weight models, I'm quite happy with it https://opencode.ai/docs/go/ Fireworks.ai has a $50 plan in early access https://docs.fireworks.ai/firepass I'm shopping around for more good deals like this, I'm long on open weights and sour on Big Ai

> OpenCode has a generous $10 plan for open weight models

No point if one can't use Anthropic's models.

Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive

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Post by tristanj »

akmarinov wrote: post #24
tristanj wrote: post #9

Currently Fable is available through Chinese resellers at around ~$17.50/1M tokens, or about a 65% discount vs API prices. Still expensive compared to Opus.

Where is that? So i can stay away from them?

Search for 中转站 (transfer station). One of the popular ones is https://yunwu.ai/
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