[tristanj]

Currently Fable is available through Chinese resellers at around ~$17.50/1M tokens, or about a 65% discount vs API prices. Still expensive compared to Opus.

[akmarinov]

Where is that? So i can stay away from them?

[tristanj]

Search for 中转站 (transfer station). One of the popular ones is https://yunwu.ai/

[_345]

... how. how is that even possible. pirated usage plans?

[discordance]

They're reselling pooled capacity from many Max accounts through Chinese proxies at below official prices:

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-grey-market-for-american-l...

[tristanj]

Account sharing. They route your request via one of thousands of Max 5X accounts.

[moltar]

Maybe from all those stolen API keys?