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Claude Fable 5.1

Added Sep 1, 2026

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Claude Fable 5.1 improves on Fable 5 across agentic coding, long-running workflows, front-end and visual code generation, finance, analysis, and knowledge work, with more concise plans and summaries. Anthropic retains prompts and outputs for 30 days; Zero Data Retention is not available.

  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Vision
  • Structured output
  • PDF input
Input
Text, Images
Output
Text
Reasoning effort
low · medium · high · xhigh · max
Discovery tier
Frontier

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$10.00
Output
$50.00
Cache read
$0.25
Cache write
$12.50
$20.00 for a 1-hour cache

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
1M
Max output
128K
Average output (7 days)
2.3K tokens
Longer than 93% of 465 models

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Claude Fable 5.1AnthropicThis modelGemini 4 ArgonGoogleRemove
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Discovery tierFrontierFrontier
AddedSep 1, 2026Oct 13, 2026
Limits
Context window1M1.05MBest
Max output128KBest65.54K
Average output2.3K tokens1.6K tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$10.00$2.00Best
Output$50.00$10.00Best
Cache read$0.25$0.10Best
Cache write$12.50$0.19Best
Performance
Throughput136.6 tok/sBest101.4 tok/s
Time to first token6.4 sBest13.0 s
Request success (24h)98.9%Best98.6%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index53.4Best52.6
Coding Index81.6—
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputYesYes
Audio inputNoYes
Video inputNoYes
Reasoning effortlow, medium, high, xhigh, maxlow, medium, high

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • Gemini 4 Argon

Intelligence Index

  • Claude Fable 5.153.4
  • Gemini 4 Argon52.6

Claude Fable 5.1 tested at max reasoning effort

Claude Fable 5.1: Better than 98% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 81.6
    • Gemini 4 Argon: —

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 59.4%
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 77.5%Top

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 32.1%
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 53.1%Top

  • Harvey LAB-AAv1.1

    Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 6.4%Top
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 3.9%

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 1,671 EloTop
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 1,486 Elo

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 1,755 EloTop
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 1,624 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 26.2%Top
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 21.8%

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 85.3%Top
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 79.7%

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 15.6%Top
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 13.9%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 59.1%Top
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 57.1%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 93.7%
    • Gemini 4 Argon: —

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 52.0%
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 57.1%Top

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 63.1%Top
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 61.8%

Legacy evaluations

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Claude Fable 5.1: 85.3%Top
    • Gemini 4 Argon: 79.7%

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Claude Fable 5.1 was tested at max reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Throughput
136.6 tok/s
Faster than 71% of 250 models
Time to first token
6.4 s
Quicker than 24% of 250 models
Prompt cache hits
10.1%
About $9.01 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h)
99.1%
Reliable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 87.8%
  • Healthy (98% or more)
  • Degraded (90–98%)
  • Down (under 90%)
  • No requests

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "anthropic/claude-fable-5.1",
    "reasoning_effort": "medium",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-fable-5.1",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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