#ai model cost

An official US evaluation says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags the frontier by about eight months. It gets quoted as a verdict. My take: for most real coding and automation work, an open-weight model that is eight months behind at a fraction of the price is not a compromise, it is the

Muhammad Qasim Hammad·August 1, 2026·6 min

Anthropic gave paid Claude plans a taste of Fable 5, then set a deadline. On July 12, 2026 the included window closes and Fable 5 moves to prepaid usage credits at $10/$50 per 1M tokens. Here is the cost cliff, who it hits, and how to prepare before the switch.

Muhammad Qasim Hammad·July 10, 2026·5 min