Anthropic
claude-fable-5-2· Verified November 11, 2026Claude Fable 5.2 pricing and benchmarks
Anthropic’s newest Fable model for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work, priced below Fable 5.1.
Input
$8.00
per 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.20
per 1M tokens
Output
$40.00
per 1M tokens
How capable is Claude Fable 5.2?
Epoch AI has not published capability scores for Claude Fable 5.2 yet. See benchmarks for rated models.
What Claude Fable 5.2 costs in practice
| Workload | Monthly cost |
|---|---|
Support chatbot 100,000 replies a month, ~1,500 input tokens (system prompt + history) and ~400 output tokens each. | $2,800 |
Document Q&A (RAG) 50,000 questions a month with ~8,000 tokens of retrieved context and ~600 output tokens each. | $4,400 |
Coding agent 10,000 agent steps a month, ~40,000 input tokens each (70% read from the prompt cache) and ~2,000 output tokens. | $1,816 |
Cached chatbot The same 100,000-reply support chatbot, but 60% of each prompt (system prompt + conversation history) is served from the prompt cache. | $2,098 |
Meeting notes 10,000 meetings a month summarized from ~12,000-token transcripts, ~1,000 output tokens each. | $1,360 |
Bulk translation 200,000 short translations a month, ~800 input and ~800 output tokens each. | $7,680 |
Content moderation 1,000,000 classifications a month, ~400 input tokens and ~80 output tokens each. | $6,400 |
Article drafting 300 long-form articles a month written from a ~4,000-token brief and outline, ~5,000 output tokens each. | $69.60 |
Code review bot 30,000 pull-request reviews a month, ~5,000 input tokens each (30% cached repository context) and ~700 output tokens. | $1,689 |
Invoice extraction 100,000 documents a month parsed into structured JSON, ~1,200 input and ~250 output tokens each. | $1,960 |
Pricing details
- Cache hits cost 2.5% of the base input price ($0.20 per 1M tokens).
- Cache writes cost $10 (5-minute cache) or $16 (1-hour cache) per 1M tokens.
- Fast mode costs $16 input / $80 output per 1M tokens.
- US-only inference (inference_geo: "us") costs 1.1x.
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- Claude Fable 5.2Anthropic$4,400/mo$0.09 / req
Standard-tier list prices. Long-context rates apply automatically where the provider publishes a threshold. Excludes cache-write surcharges, taxes, batch and volume discounts.
Claude Fable 5.2 pricing FAQs
- When was Claude Fable 5.2 released?
- Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 on November 9, 2026. Its API ID is claude-fable-5-2, at $8.00 input / $40.00 output per 1M tokens.
- How much does Claude Fable 5.2 cost per 1M tokens?
- Claude Fable 5.2 costs $8.00 per 1M input tokens and $40.00 per 1M output tokens, and $0.20 per 1M cached input tokens on Anthropic’s standard tier.. Cached input tokens cost $0.20 per 1M.
- What is Claude Fable 5.2’s context window?
- You can prompt Claude Fable 5.2 with up to 1M tokens. It can generate up to 128K tokens per response.
- Does Claude Fable 5.2 have a batch API discount?
- Yes. Asynchronous batch jobs cost 50% less: $4.00 input / $20.00 per 1M tokens.
- How does Claude Fable 5.2’s price compare with other AI models?
- Sorted by blended price (3 input : 1 output), Claude Fable 5.2 is #27 of the 29 models we track, at $16.00 per 1M tokens blended.