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Claude Fable 5

Legacy (still served, retirement not before June 9 2027).

Data checked 2026-09-06

Anthropic ga claude-fable-5

Context window
1M tokens in
Max output
128K tokens out
Input
$10.00 per 1M tokens
Output
$50.00 per 1M tokens
Cached input
$1.00 per 1M tokens
Blended
$20.00 3:1 in:out
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
Released
2026-06-09
Licence
proprietary

A What it is for

Same list price as Fable 5.1 but 4x the cache-read cost ($1 vs $0.25) and a five-month-older knowledge cutoff - there is no cost reason to start new work here; migrate to Fable 5.1 unless you depend on forced tool_choice, which 5.1 removed.

At a three-to-one input-to-output ratio, Claude Fable 5 costs $20.00 per million tokens blended. A workload of one million input and 330,000 output tokens per day would run about $795.00 per month at list price, before caching or batch discounts.

B Capabilities

tools vision reasoning prompt-caching batch streaming structured-output web-search
Input modalitiestext, image, pdf
Output modalitiestext
Batch discount50% off asynchronous requests

C Others from Anthropic

Model Context Max out In $/M Out $/M Blended Status
Claude Fable 5.1 claude-fable-5-1 1M 128K $10.00 $50.00 $20.00 ga
Claude Mythos 5.1 claude-mythos-5-1 1M 128K $10.00 $50.00 $20.00 preview
Claude Mythos 5 claude-mythos-5 1M 128K $10.00 $50.00 $20.00 preview
Claude Opus 5 claude-opus-5 1M 128K $5.00 $25.00 $10.00 ga
Claude Opus 4.8 claude-opus-4-8 1M 128K $5.00 $25.00 $10.00 ga
Claude Opus 4.7 claude-opus-4-7 1M 128K $5.00 $25.00 $10.00 ga
Claude Opus 4.6 claude-opus-4-6 1M 128K $5.00 $25.00 $10.00 ga
Claude Opus 4.5 claude-opus-4-5-20251101 200K 64K $5.00 $25.00 $10.00 ga
Claude Sonnet 5 claude-sonnet-5 1M 128K $2.00 $10.00 $4.00 ga
Claude Sonnet 4.6 claude-sonnet-4-6 1M 128K $3.00 $15.00 $6.00 ga
Claude Sonnet 4.5 claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 200K 64K $3.00 $15.00 $6.00 ga
Claude Haiku 4.5 claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 200K 64K $1.00 $5.00 $2.00 ga

D Verify before you commit

Model pricing changes without notice and this page is a snapshot. Confirm against the vendor's own page before you build a budget on it.

Source: platform.claude.com · checked 2026-09-06 · Anthropic pricing · API docs