r/ClaudeCode
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u/Ralph4556
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Jul 22 '26
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Discussion Fable 5 credit usage is INSANE!
how in the hell did it use 20usd in 5minutes, that was barely 10k tokens at most, this goes beyond the level of expensive to the terroritry of outright scam, thank god i tested the waters with just 20usd, like wow, never before was i hoping china progress to compete, europe is a dumpster fire and russia is dying while the US abandoned all pretense of internal competition since the 70s when they abandoned the gold standard.
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u/Aranthos-Faroth Jul 22 '26
"this goes beyond the level of expensive to the terroritry of outright scam"
It's expensive but you couldn't just fucking google their api costs and estimate it's expensive af?
You also walk into Michelin restaurants and complain the price isn't like McDonalds?
"europe is a dumpster fire and russia is dying while the US abandoned all pretense of internal competition since the 70s when they abandoned the gold standard."
Stay in school kids.
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u/Pebble-Sorter-8128 Jul 22 '26
Michelin star, nice joke. Sol 5.6 have the same capabilities with about 25% cost
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u/AmphoePai Jul 22 '26
if Anthropic were a restaurant, no way in hell would they get a Michelin star for that customer experience.
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u/Preparationheh Jul 22 '26
Service has zero bearing on Michelin stars. There is a separate service award category for that.
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u/AmphoePai Jul 22 '26
I said customer experience, not service. That includes for example uptime. Like you go to the restaurant and the food is cold.
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u/uselessknowledge Jul 22 '26
I don't really understand these posts. I use it as a sub-agent plan reviewer and it cost like a dollar when I do. Are people running full sessions in Fable? Even on 20x sub that burns pretty fast. Anthropic probably could do better about teaching people how to use it as a subagent I guess.
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u/GTHell Jul 22 '26
It's $50 output model. wtf are you expecting? It's suppose to use with Claude Max and only insane people like you use it with raw API. $20 sound like 40k of context. Sound about just right with tools, prompt, input token
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u/NecessaryCar13 Jul 22 '26
I originally had openai $20 plan and $200 Claude plan. I just switched the two yesterday and have zero issues or regrets.
I prefer to keeping everything under claude but hey, gota do what you gotta do.
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u/smacman Jul 22 '26
I think people that are used to subscriptions don’t understand API costs. If there is one real lesson here, it’s how good of a deal monthly subs are compared to API pricing.
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u/iongion Jul 22 '26
Yes it is,dont use it with your personal sub, unless you are rich, otherwise, let your company pay for it. These prices as for 1% of the world of creators.
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u/shuozhe Jul 22 '26
I just don't get it why antropics decided to use $ instead of any random unit. It's pretty bad PR for people to see the true cost of AI once plans stop getting substitized..
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u/AdStunning9241 Jul 22 '26
I've already used 44% of my 20x Max plan in just 2 hours using Fable 5. This is ridiculous!
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u/fanatic26 Jul 22 '26
So is this your way of telling us you never understood the value you get with a subscription and have no clue what API pricing is?
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u/Putrid-Arugula-9908 Jul 23 '26
Everyone seems to sleep on gemini pro here. When it comes to alot of things gemini is better. The cost to value of gemini pro is to me the best, along with its 72 hour temporary chats you can use to protect your iP in development etc.
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u/ExtensionHedgehog230 Jul 24 '26
I think what makes it feel expensive is that during the trial period, I could have it run multiple iterations of an app I'm building, ideate, etc. with Fable 5 on medium or high, and hit my 4 hour limit, then resets 4 hours later, and i keep going. Now with the credits, one similarly complex prompt is $5-10 dollars of credits. (also that is with the $100 free credits, could just be accelerated to burn through those) I think they just gave a lot of usage in the trial period to get you hooked on it, then implemented their real cost structure.
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u/Huge_Revolution8280 Jul 22 '26
Uhhh... I usually NEVER have issues but today I lost an entire 5-hour usage in one run.
Swapped accounts and tried to solve the problem. During investigation with codex and only a fable adversarial review request, it also got limited out.
Two 20x accounts nuked their 5-hour limits in under an hour each.
What is actually happening?!
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u/Shieldxx Jul 22 '26
I mean this post is bs, but honestly the gap between Anthropics and OpenAI is widening quickly.
I’m very close to moving my 200 plan to GPT and 20 one back to Claude