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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6 versus Claude Fable 5 on list price and published Arena rating. Claude Opus 4.6 Arena 1501 · Claude Fable 5 Arena 1491 Blended list price Claude Opus 4.6 $20.00 and Claude Fable 5 $40.00 per 1M tokens.

Claude Opus 4.6AnthropicArena 1501$20.00 / 1M
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by 10 Arena pointsClaude Fable 5 costs 2.0x more
Claude Fable 5AnthropicArena 1491$40.00 / 1M

Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic

Input / 1M$5.00Output / 1M$25.00Arena1501Value1601,000 coding edits$30.00

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Claude Fable 5

Anthropic

Input / 1M$10.00Output / 1M$50.00Arena1491Value1271,000 coding edits$60.00

Open model

Claude Opus 4.6 leads by 10 Arena points. Claude Fable 5 costs 2.0x more, moving from Claude Opus 4.6 to Claude Fable 5. The 1,000-edit cost uses a planning assumption of 2,000 input and 800 output tokens, not a measured trace. Share this face-off. The link renders an Open Graph image of the two models.