Claude Fable 5 pricing
Claude Fable 5 API cost from Anthropic — $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output tokens. Most capable widely released. Estimate your real monthly bill below, then compare it against every other model.
Flagship 1M context · all prices USD per 1M tokens, list price last verified 2026-06-27.
Claude Fable 5 capabilities & limits
Representative specs for this tier — confirm exact limits in the Anthropic docs.
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Call Claude Fable 5 from your code
The exact model string and endpoint to use. Uses the Anthropic API format.
claude-fable-5https://api.anthropic.com/v1ANTHROPIC_API_KEYcurl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages \
-H "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" \
-H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "claude-fable-5",
"max_tokens": 1024,
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'Model strings follow each provider's naming convention; confirm the current id in the Anthropic docs before relying on it.
What a Claude Fable 5 API call actually costs
Blended input + output cost at Claude Fable 5's list rates — useful yardsticks before you commit to volume.
Claude Fable 5 cost calculator
Enter your monthly volume to estimate the Claude Fable 5 bill. Runs entirely in your browser.
Anthropic models — Claude Fable 5 in context
How Claude Fable 5 prices against its siblings. Cheapest reference cost first.
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cost / call* | Context | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 Fastest, near-frontier | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.0060 | 200K | Fast / cheap |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Best speed/intelligence; caching cuts input ~90% | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.018 | 1M | Balanced |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Top Opus reasoning/agentic | $5.00 | $25.00 | $0.030 | 1M | Flagship |
| Claude Fable 5 Most capable widely released | $10.00 | $50.00 | $0.060 | 1M | Flagship |
*Reference cost of one call with 1,000 input + 1,000 output tokens — a neutral yardstick. Use the calculator for your real usage. Cheapest row highlighted.
How Claude Fable 5 pricing works
Claude Fable 5 is billed per token: a lower input price of $10.00 per million tokens for everything you send, and a higher output price of $50.00 per million for everything the model generates. To turn that into a real Claude Fable 5 bill, multiply by your monthly request volume and average prompt/response length — the calculator above does exactly that.
Prompt caching is the biggest lever on your Claude Fable 5 cost: cached input tokens bill at just $1.00 per million — about 90% cheaper. If you reuse a long system prompt or context across calls, caching can dramatically cut the input portion of your bill.
List prices move fast — always confirm the current numbers on the official Anthropic pricing page before relying on them for budgeting.
Claude Fable 5 pricing FAQ
How much does the Claude Fable 5 API cost?
Claude Fable 5 costs $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $1.00 per 1M (about 90% off). A typical 3K-input / 500-output call works out to about $0.055.
What is Claude Fable 5's context window?
Claude Fable 5 has a 1M-token context window. Tokens you put in the prompt are billed at the $10.00 per 1M input rate.
Does Claude Fable 5 support prompt caching?
Yes. Claude Fable 5 bills cached input tokens at $1.00 per 1M instead of $10.00 — roughly 90% cheaper for the repeated part of your prompts.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Claude Fable 5?
In the same flagship tier, MiniMax-M3 (MiniMax) is cheaper at $0.300 in / $1.20 out. The overall cheapest model on the market is Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B.