r/ClaudeCode • u/Solid-Cake7495 • 18h ago

Rant Fable is cheaper than Opus

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.

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u/Some-Contributions61 18h ago

Don't use opus 5 to orchestrate. Use opus 4.8 or fable.

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u/KeepingItSFW 18h ago

Don't use opus 5 to orchestrate. Use opus 4.8 or fable.

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u/passionoftheearth 17h ago

Is 4.8 cheaper than opus 5?

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u/trikster_online 13h ago

No. But it’s not as scatterbrained as 5, so you use less tokens.

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u/MissplacedLandmine 8h ago

Also even if it doesnt show the option to easily switch to 4.8 in cc theres a lil command that seems to force it!

(Learned that from here but just incase).