Claude Fable 5.2 API pricing per million tokens
Claude Fable 5.2 costs $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output, with a 1M context window. Through AIGROW API credit, it costs $3.20 and $16.00.
$25 a month brings $110 of API credit and cancels any time; $25 once buys $100. US dollars per million tokens, standard rate, shortest context band. Number 1 of 256 on the Epoch Capabilities Index by Epoch AI, data of 12 November 2026. CC BY 4.0
- Through AIGROW credit
- $3.20 / $16.00
- 1,000 support replies
- $40.00
- Cached input
- $0.20
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Released
- 9 Nov 2026
- Weights
- Closed weights
From Anthropic’s own pages, 12 November 2026.
Claude Fable 5.2 costs $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens on Anthropic’s own API, and $0.20 for cached input. At those prices 1,000 support replies cost $40.00, the 3rd most expensive of 49 priced models on our list.
AIGROW API credit runs Claude Fable 5.2 at $3.20 / $16.00 per million input / output tokens, up to 60% below list price. See API credit
What a job costs
Three jobs, 1,000 runs of each, at the list price above, and where each puts Claude Fable 5.2 among the 49 models with a list price.
| Job | 1,000 runs | Among 49 |
|---|---|---|
| Support reply3,000 in, 400 out. | $40.00 | 3rd most expensive |
| Document summary25,000 in, 1,000 out. | $240 | 3rd most expensive |
| Agent task80,000 in (70,000 cached), 3,000 out. | $214 | 3rd most expensive |
The token counts are ours, chosen to look like real work; the prices are Anthropic’s. All three jobs stay under 100,000 tokens a request, below every long-context surcharge on the list.
The small print
What the base rate above leaves out, copied from the maker’s pages: surcharges, discounts, promotions and cache pricing.
Cache read is 0.025x input on this model ($0.20). Cache write $10 (5 min) or $16 (1 h). Fast mode $16 / $80. Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates. Max output 128K.
Claude Fable 5.2 against the models it is weighed with
Each comparison puts both list prices side by side and costs the same three jobs on each.
- vs Claude Fable 5.1
- Anthropic's new Fable against the one it replaces, at a fifth less per token: $8 / $40 against $10 / $50.
- vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Anthropic's default flagship against the Fable it points to for the hardest reasoning and agent work, at twice the price.
- vs GPT-6 Astra
- Anthropic's and OpenAI's flagships, with Fable a fifth cheaper than Astra on input and output.
- vs Gemini 4 Carbon
- The models Anthropic and Google offer for their hardest work, with Carbon at a quarter of the Fable price until December, then half.
- vs Gemini 4 Argon
- Anthropic's newest Fable against Google's efficient Gemini 4 model, with Argon at a quarter of the Fable price until December, then half.
Other Anthropic models
| Model | Input | Output | Context | 1,000 replies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1M | $0.50 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5AnthropicNewer model: Claude Haiku 5.5 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K | $5.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M | $10.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5AnthropicNewer model: Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M | $10.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6AnthropicNewer model: Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M | $15.00 |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $4.00 | $20.00 | 1M | $20.00 |
| Claude Opus 5AnthropicNewer model: Claude Opus 5.5 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | $25.00 |
| Claude Fable 5.1AnthropicNewer model: Claude Fable 5.2 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M | $50.00 |
Where the price comes from
Read on 12 November 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Run Claude Fable 5.2 up to 60% below list price
Through AIGROW API credit, Claude Fable 5.2 costs $3.20 / $16.00 per million input / output tokens against $8.00 / $40.00 at list, and $25 buys $100 of credit. The model id is claude-fable-5.2.
Prices checked 12 November 2026 · See them by release date