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Same Price, Different Bill: GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and the Week Both Flagships Landed
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on a Tuesday. OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on the Thursday. Both list at ten dollars in and fifty out per million tokens, to the cent, and for about a day I thought there was nothing to write about. Then the receipts came in. Here is what the two flagships cost to get real work done, where each one wins, why the fine print matters more than the sticker, and what a Calgary software shop changed about quoting and routing AI work because of it.
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