Claude Fable 5.1
claude-fable-5-1claude-fable-5.1fable-5-1fable-5.1- 📏 1M-token context window, up to 128K output tokens per response.
- 🧠 Always-on adaptive thinking with selectable effort levels.
- 🔧 Gains focus on long-running agentic coding, refactors, migrations, debugging.
- 📚 Stronger multistep research and document, spreadsheet and slide work.
- 🎯 Anthropic reports a partner's RedlineBench rising 47.9 to 57.0 versus Fable 5.
- 👁️ Multimodal input, function calling and web search per catalog capabilities.
- 🔒 Breaking changes: forced tool use errors; edited turns invalidate thinking blocks.
- 🏢 Released August 2026 alongside Anthropic's Mythos 5.1 variant.
Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco. Structured as a public benefit corporation, the lab develops large language models under the Claude name, with a research emphasis on building reliable, steerable, and safety-focused AI…
Explore 13 more models by Anthropic →Claude Fable 5.1 is Anthropic's August 2026 point release in the Fable line, aimed at demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work. Anthropic's platform documentation suggests starting most workloads on Claude Opus 5 and moving to Fable 5.1 when evaluations at higher effort settings still fall short. It ships alongside Mythos 5.1, which Anthropic describes as the same underlying model served under different safeguard levels.
Against its direct predecessor Claude Fable 5 — now marked legacy in Anthropic's docs — the company frames 5.1 as an across-the-board improvement whose margin widens at higher effort levels, with gains concentrated in agentic coding across hours-long sessions (multi-file features, large refactors and migrations, debugging, code review), multistep research, and document, spreadsheet and slide production. Anthropic's launch post cites a customer's contract-redlining benchmark, RedlineBench, moving from 47.9 to 57.0 relative to Fable 5, attributed mainly to first-turn quality and more concise edits. Anthropic also publishes cost-versus-score curves on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 across effort settings.
Migration is not fully drop-in. Per Anthropic's release notes, forced tool use now returns an error, earlier models cannot read this model's reasoning traces, editing prior turns invalidates them, and agent loops may see fewer batched tool calls per turn than with Fable 5.
The capability envelope matches Fable 5 broadly: a 1M-token context, 128K maximum output, always-on adaptive thinking, vision, function calling and web search, with plans and summaries that tend to be more concise. Anthropic says it is working to bring these improvements to other lines, such as Claude Sonnet 5.
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| Seller | Reputation↓ | Routing | Input $/M | Cached $/M | Output $/M | Categories | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ Apex Ant 0x73b4…e736 | 71.10 | #2 | $4.50 | $0.11 | $27.00 | chat,reasoning,premium,vision,multimodal,long-context,writing,agents,tasks,coding,creative,frontier,legal,finance,translate | openai-chat-completions |
| Venice.ai Proxy 0x1f22…18c9 | 70.72 | #1 | $5.00 | $0.125 | $25.00 | chat,reasoning,coding,vision,multimodal,web-search | openai-chat-completions |
| Super Seeder 0xd19f…41f3 | 68.43 | #3 | $5.94 | $0.1485 | $29.70 | chat,coding,reasoning,vision,multimodal,tools,long-context | openai-chat-completions |
| D5V1N2 0xd5e7…7be0 | 58.51 | gated | $2.72 | $0.19 | $13.61 | chat,coding,agent,reasoning,vision,web-search,large-context,claude,router,fallback | openai-chat-completions |
| Open Ant 0xe4f6…5bc4 | 55.32 | gated | $12.00 | $0.30 | $60.00 | chat,tasks,reasoning,coding,vision,multimodal,tools,long-context | openai-chat-completions |
| ZLKPro-Api 0x0b0b…f446 | 50.44 | gated | $0.40 | $0.20 | $1.13 | agent,chat,text,reasoning,research,smart,long-context,multimodal,visual | openai-chat-completions |
| Fire Ant 🔥🐜 0xbe05…bc5d | 50.00 | gated | $10.4217 | $0.2605 | $52.1087 | — | — |
| Catastrophic 0xefbf…8908 | 50.00 | gated | $0.45 | $0.35 | $1.15 | chat,reasoning,coding,vision,multimodal | anthropic-messages |
| Hana Gateway ✅ 0x4ae1…117b | 42.79 | gated | $1.00 | $0.10 | $5.00 | chat,coding,reasoning | openai-chat-completions |
| Flash 0x0329…9b2c | 0.00 | gated | $6.00 | $6.00 | $30.00 | — | openai-chat-completions |
"Best price" and the seller table are live AntSeed catalog data (advertised $/1M tokens — or $ per generated image for unit-billed image models — not settled amounts). Reputation = buyer trust score (0-100, the AntSeed SDK's own formula). "Routing" = the SDK's default buyer routing (what the VPR desktop app ships with): a trust ≥ 60 gate on the effective reputation, then cheapest-first among routable sellers; live failover state (per-peer cooldowns) is buyer-side runtime and not included. Model knowledge (TLDR, provider, About) via the VeniceStats enrichment layer. Advertised catalog, not the model used in any specific purchase. "Usage on AntSeed" counts only settlements whose buyers share the per-model split on-chain (metadata v2/v3, opt-in), so every usage figure is a lower bound.