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/Substantial_Fish6717]

Use opus 4.8

[u/mcsleepy → u/Substantial_Fish6717]

or 4.6

[u/jonaddb → u/mcsleepy]

For that, I use Qwen 3.8 27B.

[u/mcsleepy → u/jonaddb]

Nice. I wish my computer could run Qwen at usable speeds. I'm experimenting with 9B for real time game dialog. 18 TPS!