Fable 5 Uses 1.5-2.5x More Tokens Than Opus 4.8
MartinGTobias · x · 2026-07-04
User Martin Tobias points out that Anthropic's Fable 5 consumes 1.5 to 2.5 times more tokens than Opus 4.8, acting as a hidden price hike. He urges developers to take task routing seriously (this is a user observation, not officially confirmed).
His approach is keeping programming tasks on Opus while delegating complex agentic tasks to Fable.
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