The r/ClaudeAI budget meta is a Fable orchestrator driving GPT-5.6 Sol workers at max thinking.

A builder who kept burning weekly Fable limits documented testing Fable with Opus, Grok, K3, Sol high/xhigh, Sol-as-orchestrator via Codex and Opus-as-orchestrator, finding most combinations land near the worker model's quality rather than the orchestrator's. Cranking Sol to max thinking as the worker was the only pairing holding sustained Fable-level quality, moving consumption from roughly 50% of the weekly Fable budget in a few hours to about 10% Fable plus 10-15% Codex. The caveat is in the post: it requires two expensive subscriptions. "Output quality tracks the worker, not the orchestrator" is a finding I'd want replicated, because it contradicts how most people describe orchestration. (r/ClaudeAI)