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I appreciate the token breakdown, but how much would this cost in money? Chatgpt estimated $400 to $600, but I don't have enough knowledge of token pricing to know if that's accurate at all.

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Yeah, it would have been expensive via the API; the tokens were free when I tested it, but it would have been something like $300 USD for the Claude tokens at Fable 5.2's API prices.

Fable is $8/$40, with cache reads at $0.2 and cache writes at $10, so you simply calculate based on the info from the blog:

> about 320M tokens read from cache, 19M written to cache, 1M output

320 * $0.2 + 19 * $10 + 1 * $40 = $294

Vibecoders don't use api. This whole game is less than 20% of the max plan's weekly quota.

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