Fable Burns $200 in 2 Hours, User Switches to GPT 5.5
yacineMTB · x · 2026-07-05
yacineMTB complained that Fable (Anthropic) burned $200 in just two hours, prompting a switch to GPT 5.5. To his surprise, GPT 5.5 is "actually not that bad" and can handle the same tasks at a much better cost-performance ratio. This offers a real-world data point comparing the cost and usability of these two frontier models.
Related event: Anthropic's Fable Model Reported to Incur Extremely High Usage Costs(3 posts)→
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