Opus 5.5 vibe check: 60% cheaper than Fable and winning back Codex converts
every · x · 2026-09-24
Every's team review finds Opus 5.5 pulling former Claude power users back from Codex, at roughly 60% less than Fable 5.1's token price. Unlike the argumentative, overrunning Opus 5, testers like Tyler Nishida ("my jaw dropped five or six times") are reconverting, and Kieran Klaassen made it his daily driver. In a demo, a one-sentence prompt produced a Genshin Impact-style San Francisco game complete with $4,200 rent and a "Series Z" fundraising superpower. Caveats: Dan Shipper calls it a "smaller Fable"—great for end-to-end coding but still preferring Codex for writing and knowledge work—and the model still buries its point and can get carried away.
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