Claude Fable 5.1 API Pricing Calculator & Benchmarks

Track Claude Fable 5.1 pricing with real-time alerts, compare providers, and monitor costs across frontier coding, research, and agentic AI workloads.

Released 1 September 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 is a multimodal model from Anthropic. It works across a 1,000,000-token context window and returns up to 128,000 tokens, accepting text, image and file and returning text. Training data ends 30 June 2026, and the model reasons step by step. It costs between $5.00 and $10.00 per million input tokens.

Last updated Oct 27, 2026

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Model Details

Released
Sep 1, 2026
Knowledge Cutoff
Jun 30, 2026
Context Length
1,000,000
Max Output
128,000
Modalities
Text Image File → Text
Capabilities
Tool use Structured outputs Prompt caching Code execution Computer use

Where is Claude Fable 5.1 a perfect fit?

Claude Fable 5.1 is Anthropic's frontier model for coding, knowledge work, and long-running agentic tasks, designed to handle ambitious projects with sustained reasoning and autonomous execution. Anthropic positions it above Opus 5 for its hardest workloads.

- Long-running autonomous coding agents
- Large-scale software engineering and repository modification
- Scientific and technical research
- Complex debugging and root-cause analysis
- Multi-step knowledge-work automation
- Large document and codebase analysis
- Agentic terminal and computer workflows
- Enterprise projects requiring sustained reasoning and planning

Quick Model Estimate

(USD 10.0000 per 1M tokens)
(USD 50.0000 per 1M tokens)

Your Claude Fable 5.1 Cost Estimate

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Pricing

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Anthropic LogoAnthropic60-min cacheTextStandard$10.0000$50.0000$0.2500$20.00001,000,000 tokens→
Anthropic LogoAnthropicTextBatch$5.0000$25.0000N/AN/A1,000,000 tokens→
Perplexity LogoPerplexityTextStandard$10.0000$50.0000$0.2500N/A1,000,000 tokens→

Benchmarks

Scores from standardized evaluations by Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Higher is better — the indices summarize overall ability, while the detailed scores break down performance on individual benchmarks.

Artificial Analysis

Higher is better · benchmarked by Artificial Analysis
Index scores by variant
Detailed scores
53.4
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence across reasoning, knowledge & math evals
Better than 94% of 32 models
81.6
Coding Index
Coding ability across software-engineering evals
Better than 100% of 16 models
57.9
Agentic Index
Tool use & multi-step agent task performance
Better than 100% of 13 models
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond 93.7%

Graduate-level questions in biology, chemistry & physics

Humanity's Last Exam 59.1%

Expert-level questions across many academic domains

CritPt 29.7%

Unpublished physics research reasoning problems

AA-LCR 85.3%

Long-context reasoning across large inputs

Coding
SciCode 63.1%

Research-level scientific coding tasks

Knowledge
GDPval 61.7%

Economically valuable, real-world knowledge work

Omniscience Accuracy 67.2%

Breadth of factual knowledge across domains

Omniscience Non-Hallucination 27.4%

How reliably the model avoids fabricated answers

All variants
Variant GPQA Diamond Humanity's Last Exam AA-LCR SciCode CritPt GDPval Omniscience Accuracy Omniscience Non-Hallucination
Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, 93.7% 59.1% 85.3% 63.1% 29.7% 61.7% 67.2% 27.4%
Claude Fable 5.1 (Max, Default Fallback) 93.7% 59.1% 85.3% 63.1% 29.7% 62.7% 67.2% 27.4%
Claude Fable 5.1 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) 93.4% 58.7% 83% 60.9% 31.1% 61.6% 66.2% 29.5%
Claude Fable 5.1 (High, Default Fallback) 90.6% 55.9% 83.7% 58.7% 30.3% 56.8% 64.9% 31.2%
Claude Fable 5.1 (Medium, Default Fallback) 88.6% 53.8% 84.7% 56.4% 29.1% 52.2% 63.1% 30.9%
Claude Fable 5.1 (Low, Default Fallback) 88.1% 48.9% 82.3% 56.7% 27.7% 48.4% 60.2% 34.4%

Design Arena

Elo rating by arena & category
Variant Arena Category Elo Win % Percentile Avg time (ms)
claude-fable-5-1 agents fullstack 1,326 57.2% 98 —
claude-fable-5-1 agents godotgamedev 1,327 60.7% 97 —
claude-fable-5-1 agents htmlslides 1,394 56.5% 96 —
claude-fable-5-1 agents mobileapps 1,265 56.3% 90 —
claude-fable-5-1 agents python-pptxslides 1,318 60.8% 96 —
claude-fable-5-1 agents spreadsheet 1,416 70.4% 96 —
claude-fable-5-1 agents webapps 1,318 56.1% 96 —
claude-fable-5-1 models 3d 1,390 67.7% 95 304,684
claude-fable-5-1 models asciiart 1,321 65% 95 188,435
claude-fable-5-1 models codecategories 1,335 59.3% 94 323,413
claude-fable-5-1 models dataviz 1,344 61.8% 97 242,746
claude-fable-5-1 models gamedev 1,381 65.6% 96 380,919
claude-fable-5-1 models svg 1,296 56.4% 92 79,029
claude-fable-5-1 models uicomponent 1,333 59.6% 92 215,969
claude-fable-5-1 models website 1,312 56.3% 94 323,669

FAQs about Claude Fable 5.1

How much does Claude Fable 5.1 cost per 1M tokens?

Claude Fable 5.1 costs between $5.00 and $10.00 per million input tokens, and between $25.00 and $50.00 per million output tokens. The range covers Standard and Batch pricing.

What does a typical workload cost with Claude Fable 5.1?

1,000 requests of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each — 2,000,000 input and 500,000 output tokens in total — costs $22.50 with Claude Fable 5.1 at its lowest rates. Use the calculator on this page for your own volumes.

Which provider is cheapest for Claude Fable 5.1?

Anthropic has the lowest input rate for Claude Fable 5.1, at $5.00 per million tokens. Across all providers: Anthropic from $5.00 and Perplexity from $10.00 per million input tokens.

Is there cheaper Claude Fable 5.1 pricing than the standard rate?

Yes. Batch pricing for Claude Fable 5.1 starts at $5.00 per million input tokens against $10.00 on the standard tier, about 50% lower.

What is Claude Fable 5.1's context window?

Claude Fable 5.1 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens, and returns up to 128,000 tokens in a single response.

What input types does Claude Fable 5.1 support?

Claude Fable 5.1 accepts text, image and file input, and returns text.

What is Claude Fable 5.1's knowledge cutoff?

Claude Fable 5.1's training data runs to 30 June 2026. It has no built-in knowledge of events after that date.