Claude Fable 5.2 API pricing
Claude Fable 5.2 costs $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens on Anthropic's API. Input read back from the prompt cache costs $0.20 per million. A typical support chat reply (1,500 tokens in, 300 out) costs about $0.024.
| Input | $8 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Output | $40 per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.20 per 1M tokens |
| Cache writes | $10 per 1M tokens |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Reads | text, images, files |
| Released | November 9, 2026 |
Claude Fable 5.2. Counts about 30% more tokens for the same text than Claude models before 4.7, so the same request uses more tokens (Anthropic's pricing page).
What requests cost on Claude Fable 5.2
The same four requests on every page, so you can compare models directly.
| Request | Tokens in / out | Per request | Per 10,000 requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| A support chat reply | 1,500 / 300 | $0.024 | $240 |
| Summarizing a 10-page document | 6,000 / 500 | $0.068 | $680 |
| Sorting a support ticket into a category | 400 / 5 | $0.0034 | $34.00 |
| A question about a 120-page document | 60,000 / 800 | $0.512 | $5,120 |
Anthropic's cheapest model here, Claude Haiku 5.5, costs 99% less for the same chat reply. Whether it is good enough depends on the request: simple ones (sorting, short summaries, extraction) often are, hard reasoning often isn't.
Other Anthropic models
| Model | Input | Output | A chat reply | Next to Claude Fable 5.2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.00030 | 99% less |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1 | $5 | $0.0030 | 88% less |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2 | $10 | $0.0060 | 75% less |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2 | $10 | $0.0060 | 75% less |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3 | $15 | $0.0090 | 63% less |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $3 | $15 | $0.0090 | 63% less |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4 | $20 | $0.012 | 50% less |
| Claude Opus 5 | $5 | $25 | $0.015 | 38% less |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5 | $25 | $0.015 | 38% less |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | $5 | $25 | $0.015 | 38% less |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | $5 | $25 | $0.015 | 38% less |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | $5 | $25 | $0.015 | 38% less |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | $10 | $50 | $0.03 | 25% more |
| Claude Fable 5 | $10 | $50 | $0.03 | 25% more |
Similar price from other companies
| Model | Input | Output | A chat reply | Next to Claude Fable 5.2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra | $10 | $50 | $0.03 | 25% more |
| GPT-5.5 | $5 | $30 | $0.017 | 31% less |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | $4 | $20 | $0.012 | 50% less |
Claude Fable 5.2 pricing questions
How much does the Claude Fable 5.2 API cost per million tokens?
Claude Fable 5.2 costs $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens on Anthropic's API, and input read back from the prompt cache costs $0.20 per million.
How much do 1,000 tokens cost on Claude Fable 5.2?
1,000 input tokens cost $0.008 and 1,000 output tokens cost $0.04, at $8 and $40 per million.
What does one request cost on Claude Fable 5.2?
A typical support chat reply, 1,500 tokens in and 300 out, costs about $0.024: 1,500 × $8 / 1,000,000 plus 300 × $40 / 1,000,000.
Is there a cheaper Anthropic model than Claude Fable 5.2?
Yes. Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, so the same chat reply costs about $0.00030. Whether it answers as well depends on the request: test it on your own prompts.
Every Claude model side by side, with worked examples, caching and batch prices: Claude API pricing guide.
Paying Claude Fable 5.2 prices for every request?
Most apps send simple requests to the same strong model as the hard ones. PromptUnit checks each request your app sends and uses a cheaper model only when it is just as good for that request. You pay 20% of what it saves, and nothing if it saves nothing.
Checked November 13, 2026. Prices are read every day from Anthropic's pricing page. Context window, inputs and release date come from OpenRouter's public model list.
These are the standard list prices on each provider's own API. Batch, flex and priority tiers, cloud platforms such as Amazon Bedrock or Google Vertex AI, and regional endpoints are priced differently. Request costs above count input and output tokens only, not cache, search or image fees.
Free to reuse (CC BY 4.0): today's list as JSON, and a copy of every day on GitHub.