Every's Vibe Check: Opus 5.5 Wins Back Codex Converts at ~60% Below Fable's Price

every · x · 2026-09-27

Team converts return: In Every's review, Mike Taylor and Tyler Nishida—former Claude power users who had switched to Codex—are reconsidering after testing Opus 5.5. Nishida says his "jaw dropped five or six times this week" and he may drop a $200 subscription to afford it.
New daily driver: Kieran Klaassen finds it as good as or slightly better than Fable 5.1, at roughly 60% below Fable's token price, making it his new default.
Not a clean sweep: Dan Shipper calls it a "smaller Fable"—faster and cheaper for end-to-end coding—but still prefers Codex/OpenAI models for knowledge work and writing.
Brand-style test: Asked for a deck in Every's brand style, Opus 5.5 swapped green for black and gave illustrations a fuzzy texture—decisions the team liked, reading as a human designer's personal touch, with consistent illustrations.
Remaining quirks: Writing is more readable but buries the point, and it can get carried away.

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