Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive 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. |
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?
(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!)
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.
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-grey-market-for-american-l...
It is not just companies that know it is economically expensive, but it is also expensive to companies who have zero-data retention policies and they cannot offer AI features that use this model.
Anthropic doesn't care and won't talk to you unless you're paying them hundreds of millions. There are now local models which are great alternatives which have no quotas and can work with companies that have zero data retention policies.
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
(Anthropic has said they want to get Fable back on to subscription plans at some point.)