Claude Fable 5.1 API Pricing

Anthropic · released Sep 1, 2026 · 1M context · API model ID claude-fable-5-1

Claude Fable 5.1 by Anthropic API pricing: $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output tokens (verified against the official pricing page, Oct 9, 2026).

Prices

Claude Fable 5.1 prices, USD per 1M tokens
PriceUSD per 1M tokens
Input$10.00
Output$50.00
Cache read$0.25
Cache write$12.50
Batch input$5.00
Batch output$25.00

Verified against the provider's official pricing page on Oct 9, 2026. Official pricing page

Estimated monthly cost

$10,500

per month

per day
$350.00
per request
$0.035

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

WorkloadPer month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day$10,500/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day$15,750/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input$6,300/mo

Context and capabilities

Context
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
Input
text, image, pdf
Output
text
Knowledge cutoff
June 2026
Open weights
No
Tool calling
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Structured outputs
Yes

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Claude Fable 5.1 cost per month?
For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Claude Fable 5.1 costs about $10,500 per month at the provider's official prices (verified) ($10.00 per 1M input tokens, $50.00 per 1M output tokens).
Does Claude Fable 5.1 support prompt caching?
Yes. Cached input costs $0.25 per 1M tokens, compared with $10.00 for regular input. Writing to the cache costs $12.50 per 1M tokens.
How long is Claude Fable 5.1's context window?
Claude Fable 5.1 accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) of context and returns up to 128,000 tokens per response.
Does Claude Fable 5.1 have a batch price?
Yes. Asynchronous batch requests cost $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $25.00 per 1M output tokens.