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Fable 5.1 price cuts make it 75% cheaper, analyst finds

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Max Woolf has tracked price changes for OpenAI and Anthropic models, noting that for coding agents, cache reads constitute the vast majority of token expenditure. He observed that Fable 5.1 maintained the input and output prices of Fable 5 but significantly reduced cache read costs, making it substantially cheaper to use. Woolf anticipates that these prices will remain stable. AI

IMPACT Significant cost reduction for AI model usage, particularly for coding agents, due to optimized cache read pricing.

RANK_REASON Analysis of pricing changes for an AI model.

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Fable 5.1 price cuts make it 75% cheaper, analyst finds

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · koltregaskes ·

    Max Woolf lined up every OpenAI and Anthropic price change since June. For coding agents, he writes, cache reads are 96 to 99% of token spend. Fable 5.1 kept Fa

    Max Woolf lined up every OpenAI and Anthropic price change since June. For coding agents, he writes, cache reads are 96 to 99% of token spend. Fable 5.1 kept Fable 5's $10 input and $50 output prices but cut cache reads from $1 to $0.25, which made it roughly 70 to 75% cheaper to…

    LINKS minimaxir.com/…/cheap-llms

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