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Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5 — Especificaciones

DesarrolladorAnthropic
TipoLLM (razonamiento de vanguardia)
ModalidadTexto y visión → texto
ParámetrosNo revelado
Ventana de contexto1 millón
Salida máxima128 K
LicenciaPropietario
Pesos abiertosNo
Lanzado2026
Precio de entrada10,00 USD / 1 millón
Precio de salida50,00 USD / 1 millón
Proveedores de APIAnthropic, AWS

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What is Claude Fable 5?

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic’s most capable widely released model, positioned above the
Opus tier and priced accordingly at $10 in / $50 out per million tokens. Thinking is always
on — there is no non-reasoning mode to fall back to — which is what makes it strong on
long-horizon agentic work and what makes it expensive on anything trivial. It pairs a
1M-token context window with a 128K maximum output, an unusually large generation budget
that matters when the task is producing a long artifact rather than answering a question.

The economics only work at the top of the difficulty curve. At $50 per million output
tokens, Fable 5 costs roughly five times Claude Opus 4.8 on the output side, so routing
ordinary requests to it burns budget for no measurable gain. The sensible pattern is a
router: Fable 5 for the small share of tasks where a wrong answer is expensive — multi-step
agents that run unattended, deep research, refactors across a large codebase — and a
Sonnet- or Haiku-tier model for everything else. If your workload is mostly retrieval and
summarisation, the price gap will dominate your bill long before capability does.

Claude Fable 5 pricing: API cost per 1M tokens

Entrada (por cada millón de tokens)$10.00
Salida (por cada millón de tokens)$50.00
Output/input ratio
Blended (4:1 in:out)$18.00 per 1M tokens

What Claude Fable 5 costs per month

Real monthly spend at a 4:1 input-to-output mix — the ratio a typical chat or RAG workload actually produces.

Carga de trabajoTokens/mesCost / month
Proyecto secundario1 millón de tokens de entrada / 0,25 millones de tokens de salida$23
Pequeño equipo20 millones de tokens de entrada / 5 millones de tokens de salida$450
Producción200 millones de tokens de entrada / 50 millones de tokens de salida$4,500

Run your own numbers in the Calculadora de costos de API de IA.

Cheaper alternatives to Claude Fable 5

ModelosDólares por millón combinadosYou save
Claude Opus 5$9.0050% cheaper
GPT-5.6 Sol$10.0044% cheaper
Kimi K3 abierta$5.4070% cheaper

Preguntas frecuentes

How much does Claude Fable 5 cost per 1M tokens?

Claude Fable 5 costs $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output tokens. At a typical 4:1 input-to-output mix that blends to about $18.00 per 1M tokens.

How much does Claude Fable 5 cost per month?

A small-team workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month costs about $450 on Claude Fable 5. A side project (1M in / 0.25M out) costs roughly $22.50.

What is a cheaper alternative to Claude Fable 5?

Claude Opus 5 is the strongest cheaper option in our database at $9.00 per 1M blended — about 50% less than Claude Fable 5.

Can I run Claude Fable 5 locally?

No. Claude Fable 5 is a closed, API-only model — the weights are not released, so it cannot be self-hosted.

Why does Claude Fable 5 charge more for output than input?

Output tokens are generated one at a time and cannot be batched the way a prompt can, so they cost the provider more to serve. Claude Fable 5 charges 5× more for output, which is why prompt-heavy workloads are far cheaper to run than generation-heavy ones.

See every Claude model priced side by side: Claude API pricing.

Prices are the published list rates for the model's primary API and are reviewed as providers change them. Volume, batch and cached-input discounts are not included. Compare every model side by side in the Base de datos de modelos de IA o el Clasificación de modelos de lenguaje grande (LLM).

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