> Not everything needs SOTA (State of the Art).

but if they cost the same then who cares if it's SOTA or not? If I can use fable to solve a problem a lesser model is capable of but i have fable at my finger tips at about the same cost then why would i go through the effort to switch?

Since when DeepSeek and Fable cost the same?

Even Kimi K3.1 costs half of Opus 5.5 on openrouter which is the closest indication of cost that we have.