Claude Fable 5 pricing: real cost per million tokens
What Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 really costs across 4 plans from 2 providers: monthly fees, usable allowances and real per-token prices, against the official API list price and independent leaderboards.
Data updated · How real prices are computed
As of 2026-10-08, the cheapest way to use Claude Fable 5 is Claude Max 5x (9/14+) at a real cost of about $0.1083 per million tokens ($100/month for roughly 0.924B tokens a month). We track 4 plans and API channels that serve Claude Fable 5. Official API list price per million tokens: $1 cached input, $10 input, $50 output — about $1.47 per million tokens on a standard workload mix.
- Lowest real price
- $0.1083/MTokClaude Max 5x (9/14+)
- API list price
- $1.47/MTokstandard workload mix
- Most monthly tokens
- 1.208BClaude Max 20x (9/14+)
- Plans & APIs
- 43 subscriptions · 1 metered API
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Claude Fable 5 plans and real prices
Real price = monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use in a month. “vs API” shows how many times cheaper than the official API list price (standard workload mix) the plan is. “Evidence” opens the full calculation and sources for that row.
| Plan | Provider | Billing | Monthly fee | Monthly tokens | Real $/MTok | vs API | Confidence | Data date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Max 5x (9/14+) | Anthropic | Subscription | $100/mo | 0.924B | $0.1083 | 13.6× | Low | Evidence ↓ | |
| Claude Max 20x (9/14+) | Anthropic | Subscription | $200/mo | 1.208B | $0.1656 | 8.9× | Low | Evidence ↓ | |
| Droid Max | Factory | Subscription | $200/mo | 1.01B | $0.1979 | 7.4× | Medium | Evidence ↓ | |
| Claude Fable 5 API | Anthropic | Metered API | — | — | $1.533 | — | High | Evidence ↓ |
Behind each number
For every plan: the data date, the exact calculation, the quota basis, how leaderboard scores were mapped, and the original adoption evidence with its sources.
Claude Max 5x (9/14+)Anthropic$0.108284/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-08 · derived; uses the data date of Claude Max 20x (9/14+) · claude-opus-5
- Real price / MTok
- $0.108284
- Monthly tokens
- 923,500,000 (0.924B)
- Quota confidence
- Low
- Calculation
- $100 / month ÷ 923,500,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.108284 / MTok
- Quota basis
Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is
Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $1 / $10 / $50 · standard-load blended ≈ $1.47/MTok
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0: Low (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (5 configurations)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
Derived from same-plan claude-opus-5 7.85B × 0.11764705882352941
Kept 923.5M: the x5 tier's only measured weight 4.25× (Reddit 1vx0k69 — the post self-labels its typed meter as soft); note this conflicts with the confirmed 2× pool ratio — if 20x = 1.2077B holds, 5x by pool ratio should be ≈604M, but that requires an unmeasured uniform-weight assumption, and the ruled to follow the measured data; claude-adoption-round7-2026-09-14.json
claude-adoption-round7-2026-09-14.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
Claude Max 20x (9/14+)Anthropic$0.165604/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-08 · derived; uses the data date of Claude Max 20x (9/14+) · claude-opus-5
- Real price / MTok
- $0.165604
- Monthly tokens
- 1,207,700,000 (1.208B)
- Quota confidence
- Low
- Calculation
- $200 / month ÷ 1,207,700,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.165604 / MTok
- Quota basis
Not workload-normalized: sample lacks a token breakdown (or is an official absolute token table); raw tokens used as-is
Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $1 / $10 / $50 · standard-load blended ≈ $1.47/MTok
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0: Low (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (5 configurations)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
Derived from same-plan claude-opus-5 15.7B × 0.07692307692307693
Old 615.2M→1.2077B; 157×0.5/6.5, the multiplier no longer pre-rounded; in-subscription 6.5× weight capped at 50% of the weekly quota, derived on the 9/14 permanent basis; claude-adoption-round6-2026-09-06.json
claude-adoption-round6-2026-09-06.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
Droid MaxFactory$0.197941/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-09-29 · derived; uses the data date of Droid Max · claude-opus-5.5
- Real price / MTok
- $0.197941
- Monthly tokens
- 1,010,400,000 (1.01B)
- Quota confidence
- Medium
- Calculation
- $200 / month ÷ 1,010,400,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.197941 / MTok
- Quota basis
Anthropic workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% cache writes / 0.5% output
Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $1 / $10 / $50 · standard-load blended ≈ $1.47/MTok
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0: Low (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (5 configurations)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
Derived from same-plan claude-opus-5.5 2.526B × 0.4
Factory official multipliers Opus 5.5 1.6× / claude-fable-5 4×: the same Standard Usage pool scaled by multiplier — not a measurement of this model; inherits the Opus 5.5 row's Anthropic-tier workload, not recomputed for each model's own price gap; docs.factory.ai/docs/models; droid-model-multipliers-2026-09-29.json
droid-model-multipliers-2026-09-29.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
Claude Fable 5 APIAnthropic$1.5325/MTok
- Plan
- Claude Fable 5 API · Anthropic
- Data date
- 2026-09-05 · official source date
- Real price / MTok
- $1.5325
- Quota confidence
- High
- Calculation
- Metered API · public token prices weighted by the Anthropic workload (input share at the 5-minute cache-write rate).
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0: Low (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (5 configurations)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing
List price cached 1.0/in 10.0/out 50.0, cache write (5m) $12.5 × Anthropic unified workload 97.0%/2.50%/0.50% (the regular-input share is billed at the 5-minute cache-write price)
Claude Fable 5 benchmark scores
Highest archived configuration per leaderboard; ranks are among all models each board archives in this dataset. Scores are never mixed across boards.
| Leaderboard | Metric | Score | Rank | Configuration | Effort | Harness | Configs | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 | Intelligence Index | 49.63 | #7 / 60 | Claude Fable 5 (with fallback) | — | — | 1 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | Resolution Rate % | 44.55 | #5 / 18 | Claude Code - Fable 5 (max) | Max | Claude Code | 1 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) | Resolution Rate % | 42.42 | #8 / 53 | Artificial Analysis - Claude Fable 5 (with fallback) | — | Artificial Analysis | 1 | 2026-10-01 |
| Code Arena | WebDev Overall | Arena Score | 1,626 | #14 / 54 | claude-fable-5-high | High | — | 1 | 2026-09-30 |
| Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto) | Net Improvement % | 8.37 | #6 / 39 | Claude Fable 5 (High) | High | — | 1 | 2026-09-30 |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | Pass@1 % | 69.91 | #8 / 33 | mini-swe-agent - claude-fable-5 (xhigh) | xhigh | mini-swe-agent | 5 | 2026-09-03 |
Every archived configuration
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 1 configuration
Terminal-Bench 4.0 1 configuration
| Configuration | Score | Score interval | Harness / effort / mode | Source task cost (mean / median) | Checked | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code - Fable 5 (max)Official Terminal-Bench 4.0 leaderboard row; score belongs to this harness × model × effort configuration. | 44.55 | 40.7 – 48.4 | Claude Code / Max / — | — / — | 2026-10-01 | Source · Archive |
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) 1 configuration
| Configuration | Score | Score interval | Harness / effort / mode | Source task cost (mean / median) | Checked | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis - Claude Fable 5 (with fallback)AA's own-harness independent measurement of Terminal-Bench 4.0 (the terminalBench40 field in the models-board payload, fraction×100); scored separately from the official tbench.ai board. | 42.4242 | — | Artificial Analysis / — / — | — / — | 2026-10-01 | Source · Archive |
Code Arena | WebDev Overall 1 configuration
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto) 1 configuration
DeepSWE v1.1 5 configurations
| Configuration | Score | Score interval | Harness / effort / mode | Source task cost (mean / median) | Checked | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mini-swe-agent - claude-fable-5 (xhigh) | 69.9115 | 66.667 – 73.156 | mini-swe-agent / xhigh / — | $13.41 / $11.34 | 2026-09-12 | Source · Archive |
| mini-swe-agent - claude-fable-5 (max) | 69.7248 | 65.691 – 73.758 | mini-swe-agent / Max / — | $21.63 / $19.23 | 2026-09-12 | Source · Archive |
| mini-swe-agent - claude-fable-5 (high) | 68.6047 | 67.484 – 69.725 | mini-swe-agent / High / — | $9.178 / $7.323 | 2026-09-12 | Source · Archive |
| mini-swe-agent - claude-fable-5 (medium) | 65.367 | 60.945 – 69.789 | mini-swe-agent / Medium / — | $6.088 / $4.622 | 2026-09-12 | Source · Archive |
| mini-swe-agent - claude-fable-5 (low) | 59.5843 | 56.79 – 62.378 | mini-swe-agent / Low / — | $3.758 / $2.756 | 2026-09-12 | Source · Archive |
These are reference mappings, not benchmarks of a subscription or API channel. Harness and quota-measurement effort alignment are unverified. Source task costs are not subscription task costs.
- Exact served-model reference; quota-measurement effort is unverified.
- Exact served-model reference only; product harness and quota-measurement effort are unverified. Not a benchmark measurement of this subscription or API channel.
Claude Fable 5 official API pricing
| Cached input | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| $1 | $10 | $50 |
Frequently asked questions
How much does Claude Fable 5 really cost per million tokens?
Measured as monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use, Claude Fable 5 ranges from $0.1083 (Claude Max 5x (9/14+)) to $1.533 (Claude Fable 5 API) per million tokens.
Which subscription gives the most Claude Fable 5 usage?
Claude Max 20x (9/14+) allows roughly 1.208B tokens of Claude Fable 5 per month for $200.
What is the official API price of Claude Fable 5?
Official API list price per million tokens: $1 cached input, $10 input, $50 output — about $1.47 per million tokens on a standard workload mix.
How does Claude Fable 5 score on independent leaderboards?
Claude Fable 5 has scores on 6 leaderboards; its strongest placement is 49.63 (Intelligence Index) on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, #7 of 60 models tracked.
Who makes Claude Fable 5, and where can I use it?
Claude Fable 5 (model ID claude-fable-5) is made by Anthropic and is available through Anthropic, Factory.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.00028 | Claude Max 5x (9/14+) | 4 |
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| Claude Sonnet 5 | $0.00309 | Claude Pro | 4 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $0.00545 | Claude Max 5x (9/14+) | 9 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $0.00772 | Claude Pro | 3 |
| Claude Opus 5 | $0.00772 | Claude Pro | 5 |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | $0.1157 | Claude Max 20x (9/14+) | 4 |