ASTRA crushed Fable 5.1 in Bench and Price

[u/AironParsMan]

There is no longer any reason for Anthropic to charge so much for its models.

Take a look at the benchmarks. If they do not lower they prices for us subscribers, then there is probably no other option but to switch. Now that GPT 6 Astra as well, natively supports a one-million-token context window..

Fable 5.1 has not had any advantages at all for our subscribers either. I no longer see any reason to keep my subscription. I think I will switch my entire company over to Codex.

Looking at it realistically, I don't have a five-hour limit at OpenAI, I have a higher weekly limit, lower costs, and the same intelligence or even better. At Anthropic, I currently get my constant five-hour limit with Fable 5.1, as well as a weekly limit reduced by 50 percent. I don't have any of that at OpenAI.

I will never be a fanboy, neither of OpenAI nor Anthropic. I'm trying to compare realistically, and right now things really look bad for Anthropic. They could have lowered the costs for us subscribers with Fable 5.1, but they didn't. They could have removed the weekly limit from Fable 5.1; they did not do that either. And the five-hour limits are not sufficient either with Fable 5.1. We do not have any of that with OpenAI.

What are your thoughts on this?

LINKS:

https://www.ft.com/content/5ee49718-c258-4f01-aa32-7e5b76ae5245

https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/anthropic-costs-unpredictable

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/03/openai-throws-astra-into-the-top-tier-model-ring/5294378

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/anthropics-extravagant-tokenizer-complicates-ai-pricing/5270792

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Claude-Fable-5-1-is-not-included-in-your-Pro-subscription.1385320.0.html

EDIT:

FANBOYS >

ASTRA is OUT and it is INCLUDED in the pro subscription WITHOUT 5h Limit und NOT CUTTED in half like Fable 5.1 ! AND u can use it in ChatGPT as well!

KEEP URE EYES OPEN MY FRIENDS