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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 your tool, and return JSON. Bottom line: an 80× price spread is not a discount you take. It is a gradient you route on — and the only…
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Upgrade this serverLast 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 your tool, and return JSON. Bottom line: an 80× price spread is not a discount you take. It is a gradient you route on — and the only thing stopping most teams is a single line of config nobody has revisited. The spread, in one table List prices, verified 11 November 2026. Model Input /MTok Output /MTok Cache read…
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