Claude Fable 5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 API pricing
For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs $0.00045 per request and Claude Fable 5 costs $0.035, so DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is about 78× cheaper.
On the overall leaderboard Claude Fable 5 ranks #5 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ranks #15.
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 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $10 | $0.15 |
| Output | $50 | $0.6 |
| Cached input | $1 | $0.003 |
| Provider | Anthropic | deepseek |
| Release date | 2026-06-09 | — |
| Overall rank | #5 | #15 |
| Coding rank | #3 | — |
| Reasoning rank | #8 | — |
| Knowledge rank | #6 | — |
| Professional work rank | #10 | #14 |
| Verified | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-20 |
| Price source | Price source | Price source |
Cost per request by usage
Without cache discounts or batch pricing.
| Usage | Claude Fable 5 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat message1K in / 500 out | $0.035$35 per 1,000 | $0.00045$0.45 per 1,000 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is 78× cheaper |
| Long document100K in / 2K out | $1.1$1,100 per 1,000 | $0.0162$16.2 per 1,000 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is 68× cheaper |
| Agent session500K in / 50K out | $7.5$7,500 per 1,000 | $0.1$105 per 1,000 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is 71× cheaper |
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