Claude Fable 5.2: price, plans and where it ranks
Official sources only.
Strengths and limits
- Meant for
- Next generation intelligence for long-running agents (the company's own words)
- Best at
- Not on the leaderboards we carry yet
- Relatively weaker at
- Not ranked yet
- Context (how much it can read at once)
- Up to 1M tokens (varies by model)
- Inputs and outputs
- Text and images in, text out
- Effort / thinking levels
- Low · Medium · High (default) · Extra high · Max; thinking always on
- In which plans
- Claude Max, Claude Ultra
- In the apps
- Max and Ultra plans (up to 50% of weekly limits); Pro only through paid usage credits (included on Pro for launch week, Nov 9 to 16, 2026).
- Watch out for
- Anthropic's most expensive model; uses limits fastest.
"Best at" and "weaker at" come from this model's best and worst placings on the independent leaderboards we carry (all rankings); we don't run our own tests. Other facts: claude.com/pricing, 4,5,3. When to use which model · Get the most out of Claude.
Plans that include Claude Fable 5.2
| Plan | Monthly billing USD · CAD | Models | Limits | Best for | Sources | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Max Cheapest paid Claude plan | US$100.00CA$140.00 | Fable, Opus, Sonnet, Haiku | 5x Pro every 5 hours and every week; separate weekly limit for Fable (up to 50% of weekly limits); priority access Good at & limits | Daily heavy users | USD1 CAD2 | |
| Claude Ultra | US$200.00CA$280.00 | Fable, Opus, Sonnet, Haiku | 10x Pro every week; no 5-hour limit once Anthropic verifies the account (newer accounts keep a temporary limit until then); separate weekly limit for Fable (up to 50% of weekly limits); priority access Good at & limits | All-day agentic coding | USD1 CAD2 |
Tip: annual billing is often cheaper.
API price
| Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cached input / 1M | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US$8 | US$40 | US$0.20 | Cache write $10 (5-minute TTL); US-only inference 1.1x. Fast mode $16 in / $80 out. Was $10/$50 on Fable 5.1 (released Nov 9, 2026) | 1 |
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Where Claude Fable 5.2 ranks
Not on the leaderboards we carry yet. New models usually appear within days; we'll add them once the leaderboard is updated.
Sources (5)
Sources checked Oct 31 to Nov 10, 2026.