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Claude Fable 5.2 vs GPT-6 Astra API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Claude Fable 5.2 costs $0.028 per request and GPT-6 Astra costs $0.035, so Claude Fable 5.2 is about 1.3× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Fable 5.2 ranks #1 and GPT-6 Astra ranks #6.

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 5.2GPT-6 Astra
Input$8$10
Output$40$50
Cached input$0.2$1
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Release date2026-11-092026-09-03
Overall rank#1#6
Coding rank—#2
Reasoning rank—#2
Knowledge rank#1#4
Professional work rank—#9
Verified2026-11-132026-11-13
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Fable 5.2GPT-6 AstraDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.028$28 per 1,000$0.035$35 per 1,000Claude Fable 5.2 is 1.3× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.88$880 per 1,000$1.1$1,100 per 1,000Claude Fable 5.2 is 1.3× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$6$6,000 per 1,000$7.5$7,500 per 1,000Claude Fable 5.2 is 1.3× cheaper

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