[stingraycharles]

> I'm really disappointed with Anthropic that they wont even mention if they will release a fable-like model with the subscription plans.

I believe this is just their strategy to migrate away from these “almost all you can eat” subscription plans. Rather than reducing / removing Opus or Sonnet from the plans, they’ll just keep the new model Fable out (which may as well have been called Opus 5), and slowly everyone starts getting used to the new normal that you indeed will be having to pay API prices to get access to these models.

[Chyzwar]

Until 7th,Fable is twice expensive in subscription tokens than Opus. They are testing if they can introduce 400 dollars Fable subscription.

[KerrAvon]

This sort of thing drives people to more open competitors. I use both every day and Opus isn't that much better than the Chinese SOTA. If corporate policy allowed me to use GLM or DeepSeek I absolutely would. Claude is already pricey for what it offers.

[wild_egg]

Really depends what you're working on. GLM 5.2 is doing excellent webdev work for me but really faffed up when working on a custom garbage collector that Opus has no problems with.