Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic's frontier model for ambitious, long-running agentic and coding work, with strong vision and enterprise marketplace availability.
Anthropic's frontier model for ambitious, long-running agentic and coding work, with strong vision and enterprise marketplace availability.
Plain-English overview
Claude Fable 5.1 is designed for work that can span many steps, applications, and hours. Anthropic emphasizes root-cause problem solving, recovery from tool failures, complex coding changes, and document-heavy enterprise analysis.
Its API cost sits at the premium end of this text shortlist. The more important operational distinction is retention: Fable uses a 30-day safety-monitoring window by default, with special enterprise routes for eligible customers.
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Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic
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Availability
Available through Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry, and supported marketplaces.
Direct access depends on Anthropic's supported-country list; cloud regions and marketplace eligibility vary.
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Fable requires 30-day retention for safety monitoring by default. Anthropic says enterprise data is not used for training without explicit permission; eligible enterprises can use EFS/customer-controlled storage or temporary zero-retention arrangements.
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Anthropic's frontier model for ambitious, long-running agentic and coding work, with strong vision and enterprise marketplace availability. Claude Fable 5.1 is designed for work that can span many steps, applications, and hours. Anthropic emphasizes root-cause problem solving, recovery from tool failures, complex coding changes, and document-heavy enterprise analysis.
Claude Fable 5.1 was released on September 1, 2026 according to the cited provider materials.
Available through Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry, and supported marketplaces. The access routes listed in this guide are Anthropic, OpenRouter, and AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft.
$10 input · $50 output / 1M tokens. Cache reads are $0.25 per million tokens. Anthropic lists US-only inference at 1.1× input and output pricing.
Available through Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry, and supported marketplaces. Direct access depends on Anthropic's supported-country list; cloud regions and marketplace eligibility vary.
Fable requires 30-day retention for safety monitoring by default. Anthropic says enterprise data is not used for training without explicit permission; eligible enterprises can use EFS/customer-controlled storage or temporary zero-retention arrangements. The policy belongs to the provider route and account terms, so verify it again before production use.
One price per model, using the same input/output mix. We weight each API rate by its share of one million total tokens and use the lowest matching reviewed route. This is a comparison rate, not a cost per task or a quality score. Tokenizers, caching, reasoning and long context can change your actual bill.
75% input + 25% output · no cache discounts
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