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MAKING FABLE CHEAPER THAN OPUS

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Cognition replaced Opus 4.8 with Fable 5, and Devin's bill went down. Fable 5 costs twice as much per token as Opus 4.8, but Cognition created an architecture that resulted in Fable costing less while scoring higher. This post looks at how the company achieved this and what that means for pricing agentic work.