Opus-5.5 at low beats Fable-5.1 at max for ~50x less money
adonis_singh · x · 2026-09-29
- Opus-5.5 and Sonnet-5.5 at the low reasoning tier beat Fable-5.1 at max, for 50x and 150x less money respectively.
- Author reiterates: skip max on Anthropic models — Sonnet-5.5 outputs so many tokens at max that total cost nears Opus.
- xhigh captures most of the vision benefit far cheaper; sign Anthropic is finally taking vision seriously.
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