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Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Qwen3.8 Max costs $0.00449 per request and Claude Fable 5 costs $0.035, so Qwen3.8 Max is about 7.8× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Fable 5 ranks #5 and Qwen3.8 Max ranks #14.

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 5Qwen3.8 Max
Input$10$1.79List ¥12
Output$50$5.38List ¥36
Cached input$1—
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba
Release date2026-06-092026-07-19
Overall rank#5#14
Coding rank#3#14
Reasoning rank#8#16
Knowledge rank#6—
Professional work rank#10#11
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Fable 5Qwen3.8 MaxDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.035$35 per 1,000$0.00449$4.49 per 1,000Qwen3.8 Max is 7.8× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$1.1$1,100 per 1,000$0.19$190.24 per 1,000Qwen3.8 Max is 5.8× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$7.5$7,500 per 1,000$1.17$1,166.58 per 1,000Qwen3.8 Max is 6.4× cheaper

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