Claude Fable 5
by Anthropic · anthropic/claude-fable-5 · #312 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 2:41 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
Claude Fable 5 is a Mythos-class model from Anthropic, built for autonomous knowledge work and coding. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and...
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Pricing
Input
$10.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$50.00
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$20.00
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$1.00
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
$12.50
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Claude Fable 5 with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $20.00 | $1.07 | — |
| 50% | $16.63 | $0.62 | −42% |
| 90% | $13.93 | $0.26 | −76% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates for this provider’s batch API. Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.02 | $20.00 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.13 | $130.00 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.4 | $400.00 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $1.75 | $1,750 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
59.9
AA composite quality
Coding Index
76.5
Math Index
—
Agentic Index
52.8
Output speed
70 tok/s
median
Time to first token
60.40s
median
Time to first answer
60.40s
after reasoning tokens
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 53.3% |
| SciCode | 60.2% |
| IFBench | 63.5% |
| AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning) | 70.0% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 62.9% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 84.6% |
| τ²-Bench (Telecom) | 98.5% |
| τ³-Bench Banking | 26.8% |
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,330 |
| Web apps | 1,318 |
| Full-stack | 1,315 |
| Mobile apps | 1,265 |
| Android native | 1,322 |
| UI components | 1,372 |
| Data viz | 1,358 |
| SVG | 1,352 |
| 3D | 1,362 |
| Game dev | 1,396 |
| Agentic game dev | 1,308 |
| Godot game dev | 1,304 |
| HTML slides | 1,259 |
| Python→PPTX slides | 1,305 |
| Agentic HTML slides | 1,254 |
| Agentic slides (HTML) | 1,252 |
| Code categories | 1,341 |
| ASCII art | 1,373 |
Specs
Context window
1M
tokens
Max output
128K
tokens
Input modalities
text, image, file
Tokenizer
Claude