
Claude Fable 5.2 vs Claude Opus 5 API pricing
For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Claude Opus 5 costs $0.0175 per request and Claude Fable 5.2 costs $0.028, so Claude Opus 5 is about 1.6× cheaper.
On the overall leaderboard Claude Fable 5.2 ranks #1 and Claude Opus 5 ranks #11.
Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.
Prices and rankings
| USD per million tokens | Claude Fable 5.2 | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $8 | $5 |
| Output | $40 | $25 |
| Cached input | $0.2 | $0.5 |
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Release date | 2026-11-09 | 2026-07-24 |
| Overall rank | #1 | #11 |
| Coding rank | — | #6 |
| Reasoning rank | — | #9 |
| Knowledge rank | #1 | #18 |
| Professional work rank | — | #7 |
| Verified | 2026-11-13 | 2026-11-13 |
| Price source | Price source | Price source |
Cost per request by usage
Without cache discounts or batch pricing.
| Usage | Claude Fable 5.2 | Claude Opus 5 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat message1K in / 500 out | $0.028$28 per 1,000 | $0.0175$17.5 per 1,000 | Claude Opus 5 is 1.6× cheaper |
| Long document100K in / 2K out | $0.88$880 per 1,000 | $0.55$550 per 1,000 | Claude Opus 5 is 1.6× cheaper |
| Agent session500K in / 50K out | $6$6,000 per 1,000 | $3.75$3,750 per 1,000 | Claude Opus 5 is 1.6× cheaper |
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