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1. GodelNumbering · 1790095446 · focus · HN ↗

   Finally that price drop

      Prices per 1M tokens     Claude Opus 5.5    Claude Opus 5
      Cache reads              $0.20              $0.50
      Input tokens             $4                 $5
      Output tokens            $20                $25
      Cache writes             $5                 $6.25
   
   

   Opus 5 is the model with highest spend on openrouter (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrouter.ai&#x2F;rankings#task-spend" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrouter.ai&#x2F;rankings#task-spend) and it seems plausible that Opus 5 is&#x2F;was the highest spend model in the world, and certainly Anthropic&#x27;s biggest moneymaker.

   If you are forced to reduce price despite raising capabilities, that certainly tells something about the market, and potentially about Anthropic future profitability too, since this model is their biggest topline contributor

   1. blfr · 1790096364 · focus · HN ↗

      People are paying for Opus 5? Not just burning down tokens left after they enjoyed Fable on the sub? Amazing.

      1. rapfaria · 1790096605 · focus · HN ↗

         My workplace doesn&#x27;t even offer Fable. And on the sub, I&#x27;ve had a hard time understanding Opus 5, but Fable can deal with it with subagents.

         If 5.5 is any better, I might try to do agentic-assisted development instead of just telling fable to delegate

      2. neuronexmachina · 1790097580 · focus · HN ↗

         Enterprise and most Team accounts use API pricing, they don&#x27;t have an included-usage quota.
      3. herpdyderp · 1790097596 · focus · HN ↗

         When you need to disable data retention, you cannot use subscription plans.
      4. ascorbic · 1790097646 · focus · HN ↗

         Enterprise, and APIs
      5. girvo · 1790112221 · focus · HN ↗

         We can’t use fable at work, opus and Astra are as good as it gets.
      6. zanderwohl · 1790132882 · focus · HN ↗

         Fable tends not to perform better, just cost more.

         1. locknitpicker · 1790160125 · focus · HN ↗

            &gt; Fable tends not to perform better, just cost more.

            There are old wives&#x27; tales on how the original Fable was superb and the stuff of legend,but it as it was leaps and bounds beyond what other models were being offered then Anthropic opted replace it with a neutered version under the same name.

            So today everyone can pay to use Fable, but legend has it they are paying for a nerfed replacement released under the same name.

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