Claude Fable 5.2
The successor to Claude Fable 5.1, Anthropic's tier above Opus for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work, with thinking always on and steered by effort.
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 128K
- Cutoff
- Released
Hosted API price
List price via Anthropic · per 1M tokens
- Input
- $8.00 /1M
- Output
- $40.00 /1M
- Hosted by
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3 providers
Hosted API pricing
How we price
Order
Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.
Prices
Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.
Cost
Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.
Transparency and funding
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Every provider serving Claude Fable 5.2, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.
| Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cached input /1M | Cost at 10M in + 2M out | Link |
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Anthropic
Creator
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$8.00 | $40.00 | $0.20 | $160.00 | Visit website |
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DigitalOcean
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$8.00 | $40.00 | $0.20 | $160.00 | Visit website |
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Replicate
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$8.00 | $40.00 | $160.00 | Visit website |
Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Similarly priced models
The models nearest Claude Fable 5.2 by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.
| Model | Blended /1M | Input /1M | Output /1M | Context | Cutoff | vs Claude Fable 5.2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic
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$8.3333 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | May 2025 | −37% |
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Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic
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$8.3333 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | Jan 2026 | −37% |
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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
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$8.3333 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | Jan 2026 | −37% |
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Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
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$8.3333 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | May 2026 | −37% |
GPT-5.5
OpenAI
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$9.1667 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1M | Dec 2025 | −31% |
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Claude Fable 5.2
This model
Anthropic
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$13.3333 | $8.00 | $40.00 | 1M | Jun 2026 | |
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Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
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$16.6667 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M | Jan 2026 | +25% |
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Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic
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$16.6667 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M | Jun 2026 | +25% |
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GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI
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$16.6667 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M | Apr 2026 | +25% |
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o3-pro
OpenAI
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$30.00 | $20.00 | $80.00 | 200K | Jun 2024 | +125% |
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GPT-5 Pro
OpenAI
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$32.50 | $15.00 | $120.00 | 400K | Sep 2024 | +144% |
USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.
Capabilities
What Claude Fable 5.2 accepts and can do, as published by Anthropic.
- Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
- Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
- Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
- Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
- Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
- Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
- Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
- File upload Process uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and other files.
- MCP Connect to services via Model Context Protocol.
Common questions
What is Claude Fable 5.2 good for?
Long-horizon agent work and hard technical problems: agent sessions that run for hours, multistep research, and analysis carried through to a finished document, spreadsheet or deck. Anthropic suggests starting with Opus 5.5 and moving up when that falls short, and Fable 5.2 sits above Opus 5.5 in its price range.
When is Claude Fable 5.2 not a good fit?
Audio or video input, and closed weights, so no self-hosting. Cost-sensitive or high-volume work too, and Anthropic says its cyber and biology safeguards can decline requests, so plan for refusals and a fallback model.
What is the cheapest way to run Claude Fable 5.2?
The cheapest hosted rate is $8.00 / $40.00 per 1M tokens via Anthropic.
How does Claude Fable 5.2 compare with Claude Fable 5.1?
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5.2 improves on Fable 5.1 in coding, reasoning and vision, communicates more clearly and generates output faster, and that its safeguards block fewer legitimate requests. Same 1M-token context and text and image input. Claude Fable 5.2 lists at 20% less per 1M input tokens and 20% less per 1M output tokens than Claude Fable 5.1. It came out 2 months later.
Can I self-host Claude Fable 5.2?
No. Anthropic does not publish the weights; Claude Fable 5.2 is available only through hosted APIs.
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