$200 Claude Ultra yields ~$15k of Opus 5.5 but only ~$3k of Fable, users crunch the numbers
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-11-10
Citing theo's math: the $200/month Claude Ultra plan delivers roughly $15,000 worth of Opus 5.5 usage in a month, but only about $3,000 of Fable 5.5 — and Fable is additionally capped at 50% of your weekly limit, so it burns quota far faster per dollar.
Poster ivanbezdomny adds his experience: after exhausting the $200 Opus 5.5 plan he moved to GPT-6.1, felt the model wasted cycles on things that could be offloaded to Jev, and found Fable 5.2 not noticeably smarter than Opus 5.5 in a small sample, though not dumber.
Takeaway: effective usage value per subscription dollar varies hugely across models — picking the wrong one quietly halves your quota.
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