DeepSeek is 44x cheaper than Claude Fable 5.2 per task: $0.60 vs $26.54
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-11-10
AI researcher Yuchen Jin highlighted an Artificial Analysis cost-per-intelligence-task comparison: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1017, max) costs $0.60 per task versus $26.54 for Claude Fable 5.2 (max) — a 44x gap, with Fable's cost split across input ($8.53), cache hit ($7.05), cache write ($7.67) and reasoning ($3.23).
His takeaway: 95% of your tasks don't need the smartest model, and OSS models deserve more attention for cost-sensitive workloads.
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