DeepSeek · Claude · GPT · Decrypt
China’s DeepSeek Upgrades V4 Pro: Claude Fable Is Only 5% Better at 4,500% the Price
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DeepSeek shipped the finished version of its flagship on Wednesday with no blog post and no announcement.
Key facts
- Fable 5 runs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output
- On blended rates that’s $30 against $0.65—roughly 46 times, or 4,600% of the cost
- Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue put the spread at over $31 per task against roughly $0.04
- The cost to use this model is around $0.435 and $0.87 per million tokens (the basic unit of information a model can handle) of input and output
Summary
DeepSeek quietly swapped deepseek-v4-pro to the 0813 build, the general-availability release of a model that had been running as a preview since April. Across nine agent benchmarks where both models are scored, DeepSeek’s table puts Claude Fable 5 ahead by an average of 5.3%. Fable 5 costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output. The cost to use this model is around $0.435 and $0.87 per million tokens (the basic unit of information a model can handle) of input and output.