> Almost as good for half the cost is something I'm very comfortable describing that way.

It's also not unusual in this context - many people describe the Chinese models as "best", because it's 80% as good for 20% of the price (or similar).

Hopefully it's not like old Opus, where it was actually more expensive than Fable cause it thought for half an hour, got it wrong, and then thought until you ran out of credits trying to come up with a correction, while Fable just went for it and did it in one go, getting it right the first time without thinking more than a few seconds.

Got an endless list of stuff done with Fable, Opus 4.8 was like a flailing braindead idiot in comparison. Maybe this one is a bit better if it's distilled.