Fable 5.2 burns so many tokens its 20% price cut is effectively a wash
addyosmani · x · 2026-11-10
Addy Osmani warns that Fable 5.2 consumes significantly more tokens. In his team's testing, the per-task cost ends up roughly the same as Fable 5.1 despite the 20% lower token pricing — a heads-up for users who noticed the price cut.
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