You're probably paying 7 times more for AI output you could get cheaper. Here's the real unit to measure. Claude Fable costs $10 per million input tokens. Claude Sonnet costs $3. That's 3x the price per prompt. On small tasks? It gets worse. Fable outputs 3x more tokens for the same job. Quick tasks cost 7 times more on Fable for output you can't tell apart from Sonnet's. Captions. Subject lines. Simple rewrites. Product descriptions. Sonnet nails all of it. Paying Fable rates for these is just burning budget. BUT HERE'S THE PART EVERYONE MISSES: Per-token price is the wrong unit. The real unit is cost per finished task. On long, messy work? Fable flips from most expensive to cheapest. Multi-step agentic workflows. Campaign analysis across five data sources. Research running for hours. Fable finishes jobs cheaper models stall on. You stop paying for retries. Rework. Your own time. THE RULE: Default every task to Sonnet. Escalate to Fable only when you'd brief a senior contractor. Teams that made that one change cut their AI bill roughly in half. Zero quality loss on everyday work. #Claude #AIModels #CostOptimization #AIStrategy #Productivity #TechTips

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