GPT 6 Astra costs $2.57 per task, half of Fable 5.1's $6.12, putting Anthropic's pricing under pressure
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-07
- bridgebench shared a cost comparison: GPT 6 Astra runs $2.57 per task vs $6.12 for Fable 5.1 — smarter, faster, and less than half the price.
- The author argues OpenAI just broke Anthropic's business model of selling a pricier model monetized via usage limits, as Max users hitting caps at 10am this week eye the chart.
- Figures come from a third-party benchmark account and are unverified by either vendor.
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