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Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it

10 points by amukbils

by pmontra

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Claude Pro with Sonnet 5 at $20 per month for a limit I never reach is OK. I'm using it 3 days per week full time.
I'm also experimenting with DeepSeek 4 and it seems on par. Its API price is much cheaper and it's top up, not a subscription. I still didn't consume the $2 I loaded on my account sometimes in June. However they about to charge double price in what seems to be China's morning and afternoon.

by nnurmanov

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This is basically why I built HailMary Fabric.
Claude Code is good, but a lot of the cost is repo discovery: finding files, reading candidates, following imports, etc.
Fabric indexes the repo locally and gives Claude Code the relevant context up front. Nothing goes to HailMary.
Tiny early test on httpx: 58% lower API cost across 2 tasks, both passed tests.
Repo is here if anyone wants to try it or poke holes in it: https://github.com/hailmarylabs/fabric/

by debdattabasu

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Fable isn't needed except deep RE work. Opus 4.8 xhigh can code anything you throw at it and can code to public interfaces extremely well. I have rarely seen it make code level mistakes. In fact its the only model I feel that can actually code and I can actually trust to code. That's imo quite valuable.

by ENGNR

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Switching to Codex if their subscription includes 5.6 and Anthropic’s doesn’t include even some small quota of Fable. I’d be using local LLM’s if I didn’t want any access to frontier

by rwhitman

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I'm fairly certain it's just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks, on an individual basis.

by sudo_cowsay

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by tibbydudeza

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DeepSeek - way cheaper and performant- still waiting for the awesome apps Fable enabled.
I doubt it.

by coldtea

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>I'm frustrated but am also hooked. Kinda of a lesson in startups in a way.
It builds bad will, that will have users say "fuck them" on the first chance they get.

by jeromie

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You know, when the alternatives are to put money in the pockets of a sociopathic compulsive liar, ketamine fiend and nazi, put money in the pockets of a sociopathic compulsive liar, or give money to Dario, I'll pick Dario.

by cekiciistanbul

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by PaiDxng

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