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Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 5

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Language Models · verified 2 Sept 2026

Claude Fable 5.1Anthropiccurrent
Claude Opus 5Anthropiccurrent
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SpecificationClaude Fable 5.1Claude Opus 5
SummarySame price as Fable 5, and cache reads cost a quarter of what they did.Complex agentic coding and enterprise work at half the cost of Fable 5.
Context1M1M
Input ($/Mtok)$10$5
Output ($/Mtok)$50$25
LicenceProprietaryProprietary
Max output128K128K
ParametersNot published—
Released1 Sep 202624 Jul 2026
Model IDclaude-fable-5-1claude-opus-5
CategoryLanguage ModelsLanguage Models
Official—Anthropic ↗

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Claude Fable 5.1

  • Matches or beats Fable 5 at low and medium effort, and pulls clear at high effort
  • Cache reads cut to 25% of the old price, so re-reading a long context got much cheaper
  • Identical model to Mythos 5.1 underneath; the difference is the safeguards

Best for coding and long-running work.

Full spec sheet →

Claude Opus 5

  • Thinking on by default — a step change over Opus 4.8
  • 512-token prompt-cache minimum, down from 1024
  • Separate rate-limit bucket from the Opus 4.x pool

Best for agentic coding.

Full spec sheet →