Direct API pricing comparison
Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 5
Compare current direct API token prices and estimated monthly workload costs for Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 5.
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Pricing only.Claude Opus 5 is cheaper in 4 of 4 comparable standard workload presets below. This is a pricing comparison only; it does not rank model quality.
| Model | Input | Cached | Output | Context | Max output | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Claude Fable 5Anthropic · Direct API | $10 | $1 | $50 | 1M | 128K | Direct ↗ |
Claude Opus 5Anthropic · Direct API | $5 | $0.5 | $25 | 1M | 128K | Direct ↗ |
Same workload, different API bill
These four presets use 30 active days, standard direct rates, no retries, no reasoning-token add-on, no cache writes, and the cached-input percentage shown in each row.
| Standard workload | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Opus 5 | Lower monthly estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat10,000/day · 2,000 in · 500 out · 25% cached | $12,150 | $6,075 | Claude Opus 5 by $6,075 / mo |
| Coding2,000/day · 12,000 in · 1,800 out · 55% cached | $9,036 | $4,518 | Claude Opus 5 by $4,518 / mo |
| Agent1,200/day · 32,000 in · 2,500 out · 65% cached | $9,280.8 | $4,640.4 | Claude Opus 5 by $4,640.4 / mo |
| Documents400/day · 180,000 in · 2,000 out · 15% cached | $19,884 | $9,942 | Claude Opus 5 by $9,942 / mo |
The main calculator includes batch mode, long-context rules, retries, reasoning tokens, cache writes, and other model-specific pricing logic that a static comparison cannot fully capture.