it's really hard to understand and estimate costs for vision tasks with frontier models
adding features to make it as transparent as possible
once you have fully visibility into models, decisions on which ones to use can totally shift
Fable 5 is so expensive
we added a feature today that lets you check how many tokens a model generated when responding to your computer vision query and how much it cost
same image, same prompt
- Google 3.7 Flash - $0.005
- Qwen3.8-Max - $0.018 (3.6x)
- Fable 5 - $0.170 (34x)
