Fable 5 as Orchestrator, Sonnet as Executor: A Guide to Cut Claude Code Costs

Key takeaways: Fable 5 costs $10/$50 per million tokens, roughly 2x Opus 4.8 and 3-5x Sonnet 5, so running everything through it gets expensive fast The fix: use Fable only for planning and judgment calls, and delegate the rest to cheaper subagents The full setup takes about 10 minutes: pick a model, create two subagents, […]