# The Price Spread Is Now 80x. Is Your Agent's Model Choice Still a Default?

Source: [DEV Community: ai](https://dev.to/samiha_elmansouri_248ff3a/the-price-spread-is-now-80x-is-your-agents-model-choice-still-a-default-f8) · 2026-11-11 · AI
Page: https://themorning.dev/story/the-price-spread-is-now-80x-is-your-agent-s-model-choice-still-a-default-51097bc3d1cd57ec
Kind: launch · Impact: medium

## In 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.

## Versions

- Claude Fable 5.2

## Timeline

- 2026-11-09: Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.2 at $8.00 per million input tokens
- 2026-11-09: Meta ships Muse Ember at $0.10

## Coverage

- [The Price Spread Is Now 80x. Is Your Agent's Model Choice Still a Default?](https://dev.to/samiha_elmansouri_248ff3a/the-price-spread-is-now-80x-is-your-agents-model-choice-still-a-default-f8) — DEV Community: ai, 2026-11-11

Tags: ai, llm, pricing, model-selection, agents

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