OpenAI and Anthropic need to drop GPT 6 Sol and Opus 5.2 sooner rather than later.
Fable 5.1 and GPT 6 Astra are incredible models. They are also unusable. Even with multiple subscriptions.
I have four OpenAI accounts and two Claude Max plans and I still hit limits within days.
We do not need smarter models.
We need models smart enough to build with that we can actually afford to run.
GPT 6 Astra is the #1 model on BridgeBench. 7.2 overall vs Fable 5.1 at 6.9.
Astra is faster, less lazy, better at back end, and more trustworthy.
Fable 5.1 still wins front end design and one shot capability.
The laziness gap is what separates them. Astra at 9.0, Fable at 6.0. Astra finishes what it starts.
Fable 5.1 is the best model in the world when it works. Astra is the best model in the world when you need it to.
@naveen_saradhi_ Honestly, I think that, opus and sol are what’s coming next and what we should be looking forward to because the limit limits that we’re getting on both of these are pretty bad right now. Would be great to have a smart model that’s cheap cheaper.
GPT 6 Astra is so much better than Fable 5.1.
Fable 5.1 is slow, expensive, and lazy. I spent the past 12 months using Claude Code as my daily driver.
I use Codex now.
Astra is fast, reliable, and computer use is a genuine game changer. It does things no other model can do.
GPT 6 Astra has completely taken over my workflow.
I have never used Linux. Not once in my life.
Today that changes. I am trying Omarchy by DHH, a Linux distro built for AI agents and vibe coding.
Lifelong Mac user. This is a big deal for me.
Full review coming. If this is actually good for agentic workflows, it changes everything about how I build.
Does anyone have any tips?
Claude Opus 5.1 and GPT 6 Sol are both imminent.
Neither lab has an affordable model right now.
Fable 5.1 is amazing and usage dies in 30 minutes. GPT 6 Astra is amazing and I just hit my limit ONE DAY after a reset.
The frontier is incredible and completely unaffordable.
OpenAI and Anthropic need to drop models that people can actually afford to use.
Claude Opus 5 has been nerfed.
This is it losing to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on BridgeBench.
The same model I put in A tier a month ago rendered a white screen. DeepSeek made an actual ocean sunset for 3 cents.
Claude Opus 5 cost 20x more and produced nothing.
This model is not the same model that launched in July. Anthropic has quietly degraded it, and at this point it is terrible.
We need Opus 5.1. Badly.