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Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Fable 5.1 API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), both cost $0.035 per request.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Fable 5 ranks #5 and Claude Fable 5.1 ranks #4.

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 5Claude Fable 5.1
Input$10$10
Output$50$50
Cached input$1$0.25
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Release date2026-06-092026-09-01
Overall rank#5#4
Coding rank#3#4
Reasoning rank#8#4
Knowledge rank#6—
Professional work rank#10#4
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Fable 5Claude Fable 5.1Difference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.035$35 per 1,000$0.035$35 per 1,000Same
Long document100K in / 2K out$1.1$1,100 per 1,000$1.1$1,100 per 1,000Same
Agent session500K in / 50K out$7.5$7,500 per 1,000$7.5$7,500 per 1,000Same

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