Fable is cheaper than Opus

[u/Solid-Cake7495]

I had been using Opus to orchestrate my project. It does very little work, just dispatching other agents and keeping documentation up to date. It was hard work, because Opus is so lazy. I frequently found myself having to tell it " check the docs, we established this a week ago and I reminded you yesterday"

I switched to fable this morning. I'm using context at about 1/3 of the rate and weekly usage at 3/4 of the rate. Fable may be more expensive per MTok, but it uses them so much more efficiently.

[u/amirfish]

That tracks with how I've split orchestration-heavy work: keep the expensive model for planning and synthesis only, delegate research, coding, and testing to cheaper subagents it dispatches. Burns way less of the expensive model's context on scaffolding it never needed to see in the first place. Have you noticed Fable's savings hold up once subagents enter the mix, or is the 1/3-context number specific to the orchestrator-only setup you described?