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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 rateEffective blended $/1MExample 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

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.02$20.00
Document summary8,0001,000$0.13$130.00
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.4$400.00
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$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

BenchmarkScore
GPQA Diamond92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam53.3%
SciCode60.2%
IFBench63.5%
AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning)70.0%
Terminal-Bench Hard62.9%
Terminal-Bench 2.184.6%
τ²-Bench (Telecom)98.5%
τ³-Bench Banking26.8%

Design Arena Elo

CategoryElo
Website1,330
Web apps1,318
Full-stack1,315
Mobile apps1,265
Android native1,322
UI components1,372
Data viz1,358
SVG1,352
3D1,362
Game dev1,396
Agentic game dev1,308
Godot game dev1,304
HTML slides1,259
Python→PPTX slides1,305
Agentic HTML slides1,254
Agentic slides (HTML)1,252
Code categories1,341
ASCII art1,373

Specs

Context window

1M

tokens

Max output

128K

tokens

Input modalities

text, image, file

Tokenizer

Claude