Fable 5 costs and claims: every figure from a sentence that names it
8 of the 629 figures in these field notes come from a sentence that names Fable 5. Each one is quoted verbatim from the write-up it appeared in, with the day that write-up went out.
Some of these are about Fable 5 and some only measure against it — a competitor’s price quoted next to Fable 5’s belongs here too, because that is the sentence someone searching for the comparison is looking for. The sentence tells you which is which.
This is not a Fable 5 price sheet. Nothing here is read off a vendor page. These are figures a working developer wrote down, and the date is the day the piece was published — not the day the price was in force. Model prices move fast: read every row as of its own date, and treat an old one as a lead rather than a quote.
The figures
- $1.43 — “The price spread is wide even among the Western flagships, which becomes obvious on ReactBench, where one run with GPT 5.6 Sol costs about $1.43 while one run with Fable 5 costs $9.05, which means that a single Fable 5 run comes to a bit more than six times as much as the GPT 5.6 Sol run does.” (2026-09-25) →
- 43.1% — “On ReactBench, GPT 5.6 Sol and Fable 5 posted Pass@1 scores of 43.1% and 41.2%.” (2026-08-21) →
- $1.43 per run — “One front-end benchmark put GPT-5.6 Sol at $1.43 per run against $9.05 for Fable 5.” (2026-08-19) →
- 43.1% — “ReactBench tests showed that GPT 5.6 Sol and Fable 5 had Pass@1 scores of only 43.1% and 41.2% respectively, indicating problems in real-world React projects.” (2026-08-12) →
- 2x — “Low-cost models like Fable 5 introduce bugs that cost 2x more in rework time.” (2026-08-12) →
- $9.05 per run — “Fable 5, the cheapest option at $9.05 per run, delivers only 41.2% accuracy in React projects.” (2026-08-12) →
- $9.05 per run — “The most affordable AI model option, Fable 5, costs just $9.05 per run, but delivers only 41.2% accuracy in React projects.” (2026-08-12) →
- $1.43 — “On ReactBench, one run of GPT-5.6 Sol costs about $1.43 while Fable 5 costs $9.05 for the same work — a gap that no per-token price list would have predicted, because the expensive model is not six times more expensive per token, it is six times less efficient at finishing the job.” (2026-08-10) →
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Where these 8 came from
- 1.6 Billion Free Tokens Is a Compression Ratio, Not a Strategy · reply box · telegra.ph
- Choosing the Right AI Model for Coding: Cost vs. Efficiency · reply box · telegra.ph
- Stop Hitting the 5-Hour Limit: Routing Your IDE’s AI Requests to Local Models · reply box · telegra.ph
- The Token Cost War: Why Price per Million Tokens Now Decides the AI Market · reply box · telegra.ph
- The Two Best AI Code Reviewers Score the Same. One Costs $1.43 a Run, the Other $9.05. · reply box · telegra.ph
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