Analysis Summary
Claude Fable 5 sits at the top of Anthropic's current lineup, combining leading reasoning scores with strong coding and the highest agentic reliability figures we track. Its 1M token context window, vision support, and mature tool use and function calling make it suitable for the most demanding workloads.
For businesses, this translates to dependable autonomous coding agents, long-document and contract analysis, and client-facing content where accuracy matters. The main trade-off is cost, with output pricing at the premium end of the market.
Adopt Fable 5 for high-value, complex work where depth and reliability justify the spend, and route routine tasks to a lighter model.
Assessed July 29, 2026
Editorial notes
Claude Fable 5 leads on reasoning and agentic reliability, with strong coding results, a 1M token context window, and full multimodal tool use from Anthropic.
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DFO Verdict
Claude Fable 5 leads on reasoning and agentic reliability, with strong coding results, a 1M token context window, and full multimodal tool use from Anthropic.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
59.9 Intelligence Index·76.5 Coding Index·80.7 Agentic Index
How Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 compares
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 ranks #2 of 395 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #2 of 160 for coding, #1 of 302 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 88% of the models we list. At $10.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 4% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on technical. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $10.00 | $0.010000 |
| Output | $50.00 | $0.050000 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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We route routine calls to cheap models and save Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.
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Claude Fable 5 is a Mythos-class model from Anthropic, built for autonomous knowledge work and coding. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and..
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Frequently asked questions about Anthropic: Claude Fable 5
How much does Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 cost?
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 costs $10.00 per million input tokens and $50.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Anthropic: Claude Fable 5?
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).
Is Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 ranks #2 of 160 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 do?
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Anthropic: Claude Fable 5?
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 is developed by Anthropic and was released on June 9, 2026.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: July 29, 2026 8:38 pm