Model pricing · Anthropic
Claude Fable 5.2 pricing
Claude Fable 5.2 costs $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens at list price. Best for: frontier reasoning, hardest problems.
| Input | $8 / 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Output | $40 / 1M tokens |
| Cached input (read) | $0.2 / 1M tokens |
| Cache write | $10 / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens |
Cache hits bill at 0.025x input, not the usual 0.1x. Mythos 5.2 lists at the same prices.
Source: Anthropic pricing, cross-checked against models.dev on 2026-11-13. Your provider invoice is authoritative.
What it costs in practice
| Workload | List price | If input is cached |
|---|---|---|
| One request: 10,000 tokens in, 1,000 out | $0.120 | $0.042 |
| A month of that request, 100 times a day | $360.00 | $126.00 |
| A 3,000-token instruction file on 100 requests a day, for a month | $72.00 | $1.80 |
The last row is the always-on cost of an instruction file like CLAUDE.md: paid on every request, whether the task needs it or not. Check how much of yours is waste.
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