Pricing · Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic's claude-fable-5, 1M tokens of context. Every number on this page was read off Anthropic's own pricing
page — never estimated, never recalled from memory.
From Anthropic's documentation
- Safety classifiers: “Claude Fable 5 includes safety classifiers that can decline requests, and Claude Mythos 5 does not.” (model page, read October 1, 2026)
- Where it runs: “Platforms Claude API Amazon Bedrock Google Cloud Microsoft Foundry Claude Platform on AWS” (model page, read October 1, 2026)
Status at Anthropic
- Status: Active (legacy)
- "Although Claude Fable 5 is still available, you should consider migrating to Claude Fable 5.1 for improved performance." Claude Fable 5.1 pricing →
- Released June 9, 2026.
- Reliable knowledge cutoff Jan 2026; training data cutoff Jan 2026.
- Thinking: Adaptive (always on). Default effort: high.
Read on Anthropic's model page on September 30, 2026.
Pricing
| Input | $10.00 | per 1M tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $50.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $1.00 | per 1M tokens · 0.1× the input price |
| Cache write (5 min TTL) | $12.50 | per 1M tokens |
| Cache write (1 h TTL) | $20.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Batch API | −50% | off input and output · verified September 16, 2026 against Anthropic's pricing page |
At the calculator's starting volume, 1M input tokens and 200K output tokens with no cache hits, Claude Fable 5 costs $20.00: $10.00 for input and $10.00 for output, at the prices above. Same formula as the calculator; change the volume there.
Where this price sits
$10.00 per 1M input tokens is the 62nd cheapest input price of the 67 current models with a verified price on this site, and the 11th of Anthropic's 14. Output costs 5.0× the input price.
Other current models in the Fable family:
- Claude Fable 5.1 1M tokens $10.00 in · $50.00 out
Other price lists Anthropic publishes for Claude Fable 5
The prices above are Anthropic's Standard list, the one the table and the calculator use. Anthropic also sells Claude Fable 5 on one other list, each with a condition. Figures and wording are quoted from Anthropic's own pages as read on the date shown; this site computes none of them.
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Batch · 50% discount on both input and output tokens · wait: results when the batch completes or after 24 hours
Printed for Claude Fable 5: $5.00 input, $25.00 output, per 1M tokens.
The Batch API allows asynchronous processing of large volumes of requests with a 50% discount on both input and output tokens.
You can access batch results when all messages have completed or after 24 hours, whichever comes first.
Source, read September 16, 2026
Mentioned in
One post on this site cites Claude Fable 5. The sentence is the post's own, taken from where it links here.
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Prompt Caching Is Not 10% Everywhere: What a Cache Hit Costs Across Eight Providers · September 16, 2026
Their predecessors, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, are $1.00 on the same $10.00, the ordinary 0.1×.
Specifications
| API model id | claude-fable-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Family | Fable | |
| Context window | 1M tokens | |
| Max output | 128K tokens | |
| Status | Current | |
| Earliest retirement | Not before June 9, 2027 — no firm date announced | |
It returns up to 128K tokens per response, against a context window of 1M tokens. Anthropic has committed not to retire it before June 9, 2027; no firm date is announced.
Questions about Claude Fable 5 pricing
- How much does Claude Fable 5 cost per million tokens?
- $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output tokens, read on Anthropic's official pricing page on September 28, 2026.
- What does a cached input token cost on Claude Fable 5?
- $1.00 per 1M cached input tokens, 10% of the $10.00 input price; a 5-minute cache write costs $12.50, a 1-hour cache write costs $20.00 per 1M tokens.
Batch API discount (batchDiscount 0.5) verified by hand on 2026-09-16 against Anthropic's general pricing page, 'Batch processing' section: 'The Batch API allows asynchronous processing of large volumes of requests with a 50% discount on both input and output tokens', table row 'Claude Fable 5 $5 / MTok $25 / MTok'. Context window and max output read on Anthropic's model page (platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5/overview) on 2026-09-30: 'Claude Fable 5 This model Legacy | 1M | 128K | $10 / $50 |' ('Context window 1M tokens', 'Max output 128K tokens').
Verified September 28, 2026 against Anthropic's official pricing page. Confidence: confirmed. No price change recorded for this model. How the data is checked.
Other Anthropic models with a verified price
- Claude Haiku 4.5 Haiku $1.00 in · $5.00 out
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 Sonnet $2.00 in · $10.00 out
- Claude Sonnet 5 Sonnet $2.00 in · $10.00 out
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 Sonnet $3.00 in · $15.00 out
- Claude Opus 5.5 Opus $4.00 in · $20.00 out
- Claude Opus 5 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.8 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.7 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.6 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.5 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Fable 5.1 Fable $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Mythos 5.1 Mythos $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Mythos 5 Mythos $10.00 in · $50.00 out
Cheaper or equally priced alternatives
Current models with an input price at or below $10.00 per 1M tokens.
- GPT-6 Astra OpenAI $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Mythos 5.1 Anthropic $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Mythos 5 Anthropic $10.00 in · $50.00 out
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