Fable changes the game yet again, because it's API-only.

You're not likely to want to run Fable in a loop any more than you want to take a bunch of dollar bills and light them on fire. Every invocation of Fable has to be intentional, its context carefully managed. I feel like a babysitter.

▲ jacobgold 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Fable is supposed to return to subscription plans, unless I'm missing something: https://jacob.gold/posts/fable-5-removal-is-temporary/

  Anthropic says the change is about capacity and is temporary. In its launch announcement on June 9, 2026, it says:

  "After this point—when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part of subscription plans. We intend to do this as quickly as we can."

▲ weird-eye-issue 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Compared to Opus 4.8 I really haven't been impressed

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danielbln an hour ago | parent [-]

And I've been quite impressed. Opus talks the talk, Fable walks the walk.

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stingraycharles an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t understand what these comments add to the discussion, you always see these and it’s just noise at this point.

	▲	danielbln an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They add nothing, meaningless anecdotes. I was kind of riffing on that.

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phplovesong an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Damn that was a cringe comment

▲ NitpickLawyer 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I agree with you that you don't need fable for everything, and you have to be careful on what you run it on. CRUD stuff, sure even the small models can do it. But there certainly are tasks that are very much suited for the absolute SotA and you'd leave money on the table by not using it. And how much a task is worth is dependant on how much it improves your bottom line. So the cost/token becomes largely irrelevant.

Let's take this [1] benchmark. A bit more context here [2].

Here models are asked to create kernels for running inference on models. This is a benchmark perfectly suited and highly relevant right now. It's easily verifiable, an active are of research, and the results are immediately useful.

Say you have 1 unit of compute, it costs 300k $ and serves 1x users. In comes Fable and after one session it gives you 30% speed-up on your 1 unit of compute. It can now serve 1.3x users. How much is that one session worth for you? How much is it worth for a company using 10 units? 100 units? How much is it worth for a hyper-scaler running 10.000 units? How much is it worth for a lab that trains the next frontier model and then serves it from 100.000 units? 30% is relative. And the cost for one session is really meaningless. It can cost 1m$ / session and it would still be worth it for someone.

[1] - https://kernelbench.com/mega

[2] - https://x.com/elliotarledge/status/2072814573753975266

▲ eru 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For now, I can use Fable from the web just fine.

> You're not likely to want to run Fable in a loop any more than you want to take a bunch of dollar bills and light them on fire. Every invocation of Fable has to be intentional, its context carefully managed.

Eh, that's just because it's the current frontier model. Give it a few weeks, and prices will drop.

	▲	zarzavat 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		API prices are the new normal. I doubt that prices will drop to the level of the subsidized subscriptions any time soon. Usage is growing exponentially but capacity cannot. There is no reason for them to waste their capacity on subscription users if they can sell that same capacity to API users. Like with Uber and Lyft, the low prices were a fight for market share, but now they have successfully captured that market share the focus changes to balancing their books.

▲ nobodycares1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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