Comment by wyre
2 hours ago
Because Anthropic releases their different model level's at very different points in time, they seem to always have one model that is by far an away the best to use for everything. Haiku 4.5 is almost a year old. Sonnet is fine, but idk if it has any real benefits over Opus. It's only been since Fable has been released that you get to choose between Fable and Opus, but not with 5.5 there is no reason to use Fable.
I feel like instead of releasing fable, they should have released it as Opus 5, then their next Opus release they would call Sonnet, and their next Sonnet release they would have called Haiku. I don't know if their pricing structure would have been able to support that, but Anthropic has always been the least competitive regarding token pricing.
Fable came with a new set of api prices, and a special allowance for subscriptions.
If they did what you suggested either they eat a ton of additional costs, or send a signal to the market that they’re increasing costs more generally.
Also Fable and Opus have different specialties so they really are best presented as different models