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Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 Carbon API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Gemini 4 Carbon costs $0.007 per request and Claude Fable 5.2 costs $0.028, so Gemini 4 Carbon is about 4× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Fable 5.2 ranks #1 and Gemini 4 Carbon ranks #2.

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 5.2Gemini 4 Carbon
Input$8$2
Output$40$10
Cached input$0.2$0.1
ProviderAnthropicgoogle
Release date2026-11-09—
Overall rank#1#2
Coding rank——
Reasoning rank——
Knowledge rank#1#2
Professional work rank——
Verified2026-11-132026-11-13
Price sourcePrice sourcePrice source

Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Fable 5.2Gemini 4 CarbonDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.028$28 per 1,000$0.007$7 per 1,000Gemini 4 Carbon is 4× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.88$880 per 1,000$0.22$220 per 1,000Gemini 4 Carbon is 4× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$6$6,000 per 1,000$1.5$1,500 per 1,000Gemini 4 Carbon is 4× cheaper

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