Fable via API and Me
A developer reports using Anthropic's Fable model via API for under a dollar to generate project designs, then passing those designs to lower-cost models for implementation, achieving results comparable to letting Fable complete the work.
Background
- Anthropic Fable is a rumored or internal high-performance AI model from Anthropic (the company behind Claude), believed to be stronger than the publicly available Claude models. It is not generally accessible via the standard API — the user here likely has special access or is referring to a specific endpoint.
- The post describes a cost-saving workflow: use Fable (on a low setting, "low" probably meaning low token generation budget or low temperature) to generate the design/architecture, then hand that plan to a cheaper, weaker model to write the actual code. The result is nearly as good as letting Fable finish the entire task itself, but much cheaper.