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If you find yourself wishing for more Fable at the subscription rates, just buy another 20x account? I'm currently on 3, spaced out on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Just as one is running out the next resets. Problem solved!

I feel the value I get far exceeds $600/m. It's a straight expected value calculation for me and I'm happy to pay. I wish they'd make it easier though - just sell me a 100x account for $1k/m and save the messing around.

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what kind of workflow are you using the requires that many tokens? I rarely hit my limit with the $100 a month plan and I use fable pretty frequently although it usually acts as an orchestrator while the actual work is done by lesser models usually.

Nothing weird or exotic - just frequent daily work in two reasonably large applications, with a lot of testing and follow-through. I've found that as codebase size goes up, token usage does too - perhaps quadratically, and a complex back end application just costs a lot to work in, probably because it needs to map out so many pathways and interdependencies.

I tend to work in 5-10 or so parallel streams at a time so that also multiplies token use as a function of time. Much less and I'm waiting for it too much, much more and I can't juggle effectively. My new big project is of course to try to take myself out of the equation further and increase the parallel streams dramatically; pretty hard to get that right so still manual for now.

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