COST-ANALYSIS
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Claude Fable 5 Pricing: Real Cost Per Task vs Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5 and CodexFable 5 lists at $10/$50 per million tokens - twice Opus 4.8. But list price is the wrong number. Here is the cost-per-outcome math that actually decides whether the upgrade pays.
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Fable 5 vs DeepSeek V4: The Cost-Quality Gap Measured in Real TasksDeepSeek V4-Flash costs $0.28 per million output tokens. Fable 5 costs $50. That 178x gap is real - but so is the quality difference. Here is where it matters and where it does not.
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