--- title: Outperforming Fable 5 at half the price: meet model... description: DigitalOcean has launched model synthesis in Public Preview on its Inference Engine — a server-side tool that runs a user-defined panel of models in parallel... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/outperforming-fable-5-at-half-the-price-meet-model-synthesis-a-new-server-side-tool-on-digitalocea-kbdcauzx9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Outperforming Fable 5 at half the price: meet model synthesis, a new server-side tool on DigitalOcean Inference Engine | daily.dev og:description: DigitalOcean has launched model synthesis in Public Preview on its Inference Engine — a server-side tool that runs a user-defined panel of models in parallel... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/outperforming-fable-5-at-half-the-price-meet-model-synthesis-a-new-server-side-tool-on-digitalocea-kbdcauzx9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KbDcAUzX9.png og:image:alt: Outperforming Fable 5 at half the price: meet model synthesis, a new server-side tool on DigitalOcean Inference Engine og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Outperforming Fable 5 at half the price: meet model synthesis, a new server-side tool on DigitalOcean Inference Engine **[DigitalOcean](https://daily.dev/sources/do)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DigitalOcean has launched model synthesis in Public Preview on its Inference Engine — a server-side tool that runs a user-defined panel of models in parallel and uses a synthesizer model to combine their outputs. Benchmarked on DRACO (100 deep-research tasks), an all-open-source GLM 5.2 + Kimi K2.6 panel scored 65.65% quality at $0.83/task, outperforming Fable 5 (62.21% at $1.59/task) and every other single model tested. Key findings: synthesizer choice matters more than panel size, the best two-model panel matched a three-model panel, and open-source combinations can beat frontier models on both quality and cost. The tool supports optimized presets (Budget, Balanced, Quality) or fully custom panel/synthesizer configurations via a single API call. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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