I’m on the $200 subscription plan. Previously, using the Opus 4.8 model, I would only use up 80% of my total quota over the course of a week; however, yesterday alone, I consumed 45% of the quota just by using the Fable model to solve a problem and conduct a code review.
Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
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Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
#2OpenCode has a generous $10 plan for open weight models, I'm quite happy with it
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
Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
#3Too expensive, yet probably still too cheap to make up for their cost of developing and running it. Don’t expect prices to go down. Or if they superficially go down, the models just consume more tokens per task so your bill still increases in the end.
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#4Guys, are we poor? I just ran out after a 20 minute refactoring exercise for the next 4.5 hours lol.
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#5Suggestion: run this command:
uvx agentsview usage daily
If it doesn't seem to know how much Fable costs you can follow these instructions to teach it the Fable pricing scheme, then run the command a second time to see the results: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/agentsview-custom-model-p...
I've not run into the same Fable quota problems that others have reported myself yet. I wonder if people are running prompts that are somehow spinning up a ton of subagents?
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#6built this to stop fable blowing up my usage limit https://github.com/teamchong/pxpipe
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Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
#8Too expensive, yet probably still too cheap to make up for their cost of developing and running it. Don’t expect prices to go down. Or if they superficially go down, the models just consume more tokens per task so your bill still increases in the end.
It's only available on the $100-$200/month subscription plans until June 22nd, after which they're going to be charging everyone the full API token price. Then it's going to be really expensive.
(I think it may even be expensive enough for them to recoup their costs, unless OpenAI or Gemini put out a similar capability model before Anthropic have had a few months to make bank from it. There was that rumored customer who spent $500m in a single month, and that was just for Opus!)
Re: Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
#9Currently 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.
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#10Sometimes I think about how much power I'm using with 10 Fable agents running in parallel for 10 minutes each. It's gotta be a lot. Compared to my PC which with a great GPU can run a crap agent that takes way too long and does a terrible job at everything.
Anyways, I don't get it, do you wish they never released Fable? I can't believe they're making any money on it. I'd bet they said we're gonna burn 100 million dollars on 12 days of unlimited access just to at least give people a taste and maybe recoup our losses if people actually pay for it later.