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The Price Spread Is Now 80x. Is Your Agent's Model Choice Still a Default?
DEV · By Samiha Elmansouri ·
The Brief
- Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.2 on 9 November 2026 at $8.00 per million input tokens.
- Meta shipped Muse Ember the same day at $0.10 per million input tokens.
- The source puts the price gap between the two models at 80x.
Why it matters
Input token prices for comparable models now differ by roughly 80x, so keeping one model as the default for an agent can carry a large cost difference.
Who’s affected
- Teams choosing which model to run in their AI agents
Last week the floor of the model market moved. The ceiling did not. On 9 November, Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.2 at $8.00 per million input tokens. The same day, Meta shipped Muse Ember at $0.10 . That is an 80× spread between two models that will both read your file, call…
Timeline
Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.2 at $8.00 per million input tokens
Meta ships Muse Ember at $0.10
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The Price Spread Is Now 80x. Is Your Agent's Model Choice Still a Default?