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Claude Fable 5.1 pricing

Claude Fable 5.1 improves on Claude Fable 5 across the board, with the biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agentic workflows, and knowledge work: long code refactors, front-end and… Claude Fable 5.1 from Anthropic costs $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.250 per 1M. Context window 1,000,000 tokens.

API id claude-fable-5.1 · Anthropic · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose

$10.00
Input / 1M tokens
$50.00
Output / 1M tokens
$0.250
Cached input / 1M
1M
Context window

Claude Fable 5.1 specifications

Provider
Anthropic
API id
claude-fable-5.1
Model type
general-purpose
Context window
1M tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Currency
USD
Price source
First-party
Last checked
2026-09-25

Claude Fable 5.1 across providers

The same model, priced by every seller we track. Ranked by the cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens, standard tier; savings measured against buying from the vendor directly.

ProviderInput /1MCached /1MOutput /1M1M in + 1M outvs vendor
AnthropicVendorCheapestviewing
$10.00$0.250$50.00$60.00—
$10.00$0.250$50.00$60.00—

What Claude Fable 5.1 costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensEstimated cost
Short chat turn1,000500$0.04
Document summary50,0002,000$0.60
1M tokens in, 200K out1,000,000200,000$20.00

Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.

Common questions

How much does Claude Fable 5.1 cost per 1M tokens?
Claude Fable 5.1 costs $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.250 per 1M.
What is Claude Fable 5.1's context window?
Claude Fable 5.1 accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 128,000 output tokens.
Is there a cheaper Claude model than Claude Fable 5.1?
Yes. Claude Haiku 3.5 is $0.800 per 1M input tokens versus $10.00 for Claude Fable 5.1.
Where does this Claude Fable 5.1 price come from?
Directly from Anthropic's published pricing page, re-read every day and normalized to USD per 1,000,000 tokens.

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