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Claude Fable 5

Added Jun 9, 2026

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Anthropic Claude Fable 5 for long-running coding, research, and knowledge-work tasks. Anthropic retains prompts and outputs for 30 days under its Covered Models policy; 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
$1.00
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)
1.2K tokens
Longer than 78% of 465 models

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Claude Fable 5AnthropicThis modelClaude Sonnet 5.5AnthropicRemove
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Discovery tierFrontierFrontier
AddedJun 9, 2026Sep 28, 2026
Limits
Context window1M1M
Max output128K128K
Average output1.2K tokens523 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$10.00$2.00Best
Output$50.00$10.00Best
Cache read$1.00$0.10Best
Cache write$12.50$2.50Best
Performance
Throughput79.4 tok/s164.3 tok/sBest
Time to first token6.0 s3.5 sBest
Request success (24h)100.0%Best99.8%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index49.6Best46.8
Coding Index76.5—
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputYesYes
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
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5

Intelligence Index

  • Claude Fable 549.6
  • Claude Sonnet 5.546.8

Claude Fable 5 tested at max reasoning effort

Claude Fable 5: Better than 96% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • Claude Fable 5: 76.5
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: —

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Claude Fable 5: 54.1%
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 59.4%Top

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Claude Fable 5: 24.7%
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 29.4%Top

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Claude Fable 5: 1,537 Elo
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 1,635 EloTop

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Claude Fable 5: 1,610 EloTop
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 1,548 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Claude Fable 5: 24.0%
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 25.2%Top

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Claude Fable 5: 82.3%Top
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.0%

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Claude Fable 5: 20.6%Top
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 18.9%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Claude Fable 5: 55.5%Top
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.8%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Claude Fable 5: 92.6%
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: —

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Claude Fable 5: 63.5%
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: —

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Claude Fable 5: 42.4%
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 43.9%Top

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Claude Fable 5: 61.0%Top
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.7%

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Claude Fable 5: 62.9%
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: —

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Claude Fable 5: 98.5%
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: —

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Claude Fable 5: 82.3%Top
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.0%

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Claude Fable 5 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
79.4 tok/s
Faster than 52% of 250 models
Time to first token
6.0 s
Quicker than 26% of 250 models
Prompt cache hits
36.6%
About $6.70 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h)
100.0%
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 100.0%
  • 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",
    "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",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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