Anthropic's generally available, most capable Claude model for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work; it accepts text and image inputs and returns text.
Pricing
Prices are per million tokens (MTok). Official page also lists 5-minute cache writes at $12.50/MTok, 1-hour cache writes at $20/MTok, and a 50% Batch API discount on input and output.
Anthropic’s official model overview identifies Claude Fable 5 as an active legacy model and explicitly lists API pricing per million tokens. It supports text and image input with text output; recorded as multimodal as requested.
Model Intelligence
Recent stories
Anthropic said flagged Fable 5 requests will now visibly fall back to Opus 4.8, and API refusals will return reasons instead of silently degrading output. The update matters because users were reporting sudden quality drops, opaque refusals, and quota-burn confusion around Mythos-class safeguards.
Creators pushed Claude Fable 5 into browser platformers, a GTA 2 clone, a SNES port, CAD models, and a webcam fruit-slicing game. The demos show playable prototypes can now come from prompts plus a few follow-up fixes, so creators can move faster from idea to test build.
Fable 5 demos moved into landing pages, brand tools, launch-video editing, and scriptwriting with Higgsfield MCP. The pattern matters because design direction is becoming promptable, but creators still need structured prompts and tool chaining to finish work.