Teknium Questions Astra Token Efficiency Versus Fable 5.1

Teknium, co-founder and lead engineer at Nous Research and creator of the Hermes LLM family, posted on X asking users experienced with Fable 5.1 and Astra whether Astra delivers 8x or better token efficiency. He notes Astra carries 8x higher cache read costs than Fable 5.1 and states the pricing makes him reluctant to use it. The post presents his direct observation and question to the community without additional confirmation or response data.