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Claude Fable 5.2 vs Claude Opus 5.5 API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Claude Opus 5.5 costs $0.014 per request and Claude Fable 5.2 costs $0.028, so Claude Opus 5.5 is about 2× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Fable 5.2 ranks #1 and Claude Opus 5.5 ranks #3.

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 tokensClaude Fable 5.2Claude Opus 5.5
Input$8$4
Output$40$20
Cached input$0.2$0.2
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Release date2026-11-092026-09-17
Overall rank#1#3
Coding rank—#1
Reasoning rank—#3
Knowledge rank#1#7
Professional work rank—#3
Verified2026-11-132026-11-13
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Fable 5.2Claude Opus 5.5Difference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.028$28 per 1,000$0.014$14 per 1,000Claude Opus 5.5 is 2× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.88$880 per 1,000$0.44$440 per 1,000Claude Opus 5.5 is 2× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$6$6,000 per 1,000$3$3,000 per 1,000Claude Opus 5.5 is 2× cheaper

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