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Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic's top of the range, and priced like it. If Opus 5 already passes your evals you're paying double for nothing.

Status
released
Released
1 September 2026
Context
1M tokens
Price / 1M
$10.00 in, $50.00 out
Mentions
3
Threads
38

What is Claude Fable 5.1?

Claude Fable 5.1 is a model from Anthropic, built in the US. It's out, and you can call it today.

When did Claude Fable 5.1 come out?

Anthropic released it on 1 September 2026. That date comes from the lab's own docs.

The tracker first logged the name on 1 September 2026 and last saw it on 3 September 2026.

What does it cost, and how much context does it hold?

LabAnthropic
Built inUS
Statusreleased
API model idclaude-fable-5-1
Released1 September 2026
Context window1M tokens
Max output128K tokens
Input, per 1M tokens$10.00
Output, per 1M tokens$50.00

List prices per million tokens, read off the lab's own docs. Caching, batching and volume deals all cut the real number, so treat this as the ceiling. Check the source before you budget against it.

How does it compare to Anthropic's other models?

ModelStatusDateContextIn / 1MOut / 1M
Claude Fable 5.1released1 September 20261M tokens$10.00$50.00
Claude Mythos 5.1released1 September 20261M tokens$10.00$50.00
Claude Opus 5released24 July 20261M tokens$5.00$25.00
Claude Sonnet 5released30 June 20261M tokens$2.00$10.00
Claude Fable 5released9 June 20261M tokens$10.00$50.00
Claude Opus 4.5released24 November 2025200K tokens$5.00$25.00
Claude Haiku 4.5released15 October 2025200K tokens$1.00$5.00
Claude Sonnet 4.5released29 September 2025200K tokens$3.00$15.00
Claude Opus 5.1rumoured
Claude Opus 4.1deprecated$15.00$75.00

A dash means the lab hasn't published that number for that model.

What are people discussing about Claude Fable 5.1?

We tracked 38 public discussions naming Claude Fable 5.1 across r/ClaudeAI, r/ClaudeCode, r/GeminiAI and r/OpenAI and 2 other communities between 27 August 2026 and 4 September 2026.

The subject that came up most was availability and outages, then benchmark results. A discussion can cover several, so these add up to more than 38.

What people are discussingThreads
availability and outages8
benchmark results3
what it costs2
refusals and safety behaviour2
using it to write code1

Every mention we've logged

Every tracked post, release, changelog entry or incident whose title or summary names Claude Fable 5.1. Newest first, each one linking to where the lab published it.

Thu 03 Sep 2026

1
Anthropicincident claude-fable-5-1 claude-mythos-5-1 claude-opus-5anthropic-status

Elevated errors for multiple models

Sep 3 , 16:23 UTC Resolved - The issue affecting Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5 has been resolved. Impact has ended as of 9:16 PT / 16:16 UTC. Sep 3 , 16:06 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been deployed for Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5 and we are monitoring for recovery. Sep 3 , 15:25 UTC Update - The only affected models right now are Opus 4.8 and Opus 5. The rest of the models have recovered to baseline error rate. Sep 3 , 14:49 UTC Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. Sep 3 , 13:50 UTC Update - An exhaustive list of…

Tue 01 Sep 2026

2
Anthropicrelease claude-fable-5 claude-fable-5-1claude-code-releases

claude-code v2.1.257

What's changed Added Claude Fable 5.1 ( claude-fable-5-1 ), now the default Fable model — 1M context, $10/$50 per Mtok with $0.25/Mtok cache reads Added "Time format" ( timeFormat ) and timeZone settings: 12-hour, 24-hour, 24-hour UTC, or a strftime pattern for the turn-end clock and transcript-view timestamps Added a Containment Escape rule to auto mode so cloud metadata-credential fetches, egress evasion, and cross-tenant reach are no longer auto-approved unless your environment marks them expected Added CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL_FORCE to apply CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL (or the main…

Anthropicchangelog claude-fable-5 claude-fable-5-1claude-code-changelog

claude-code 2.1.257

Added Claude Fable 5.1 (claude-fable-5-1), now the default Fable model — 1M context, $10/$50 per Mtok with $0.25/Mtok cache reads Added "Time format" (timeFormat) and timeZone settings: 12-hour, 24-hour, 24-hour UTC, or a strftime pattern for the turn-end clock and transcript-view timestamps Added a Containment Escape rule to auto mode so cloud metadata-credential fetches, egress evasion, and cross-tenant reach are no longer auto-approved unless your environment marks them expected Added CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL_FORCE to apply CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL (or the main model) to every…

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