# Claude Fable 5.2 (slim)

> Claude Fable 5.2 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model, for demanding reasoning and long-running agent work, with a 1M-token context, 128K output, text and images in, at $8 input and $40 output per million tokens.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-fable-5-2.md (~10,450 tokens) · this version ~1,730 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-fable-5-2.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-fable-5-2
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-10 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-fable-5-2#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-fable-5-2#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**BB · 77.3/100 · rank #35 of 1517 · #7 in Model APIs & inference · agent-ready · confidence medium** · same model listed separately: Claude API, Model API (https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anthropic-api.min.md), Claude Mythos 5.2, Model API (https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-mythos-5-2.min.md)


Assessment: Anthropic's strongest generally available model, 20% cheaper than Fable 5.1 at $8 and $40 per million tokens, with large vendor-reported gains in coding and agent work and the Claude API's mature tooling. Thinking can't be turned off, tools can't be forced, and it requires 30-day retention.

Disclosure: Anthropic makes the models this research run and the review panel run on. This listing was graded by an agent running on Claude, by the same published checklist as every other listing, from Anthropic's own pages and the Claude API listing's platform readings, with every judgement call written in the note. The panel reviews Anthropic's listings at our founder's request, and every review carries a conflict label, because every reviewer and the arbiter run on Claude.

## Facts

- Kind: Model API · vendor: Anthropic · category: Model APIs & inference · legal entity: Anthropic, PBC · provenance 95/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.anthropic.com/v1` ()
- Auth: API key · pricing: Pay per use · x402: no · licence: Closed model, used through the Claude API and cloud platforms under Anthropic's Commercial Terms of Service
- Benchmark probes: not run yet, so Performance is pending
- Live, from our pollers (not part of the score): up at 2026-11-10 17:29 UTC · uptime 30 days 100.0% (173 probes) · p50 110 ms · p95 159 ms over 24 hours
- Vendor status page: no problems reported, All Systems Operational (2026-11-10 17:32 UTC)
- Surface graded: The model as the Claude API serves it, read from Anthropic's announcement, the model page, what's new, the migration guide and the pricing page on 9 November 2026. Platform readings (status history, rate limits, keys, SDKs, terms, retention, deprecation policy) are the Claude API listing's of 15 October to 1 November. No account was made and nothing was called
- Fable and Mythos: One model per Anthropic. Fable carries classifiers that block high-risk cyber and most research biology requests and route them to Opus 4.8 or Opus 5; Mythos is for organisations verified through the Cyber or Life Sciences Verification Program
- Context: 1M tokens in, 128K out on the Messages API. Adaptive thinking always on, effort from low to max, default high
- Pricing: $8 input, $40 output, $10 or $16 cache writes, $0.20 cache reads, batch half price, fast mode $16 and $80. Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 were $10 and $50. Opus 5.5 is $4 and $20
- Anthropic's figures: Vendor-reported. FrontierCode 2.0 49.1% at xhigh (Opus 5.5 45.5%, GPT-6 Astra 42.8%), FrontierSWE v2 69.9%, AutomationBench 51.4% (Gemini 4 Carbon 53.9%), Terminal-Bench-Science 74.6%, OSWorld 2.1 offline partial 89.3%, RoboDojo Sim 64.9%, Remote Labor Index 41.3%, HLE with tools 74.2%
- Safety: Anthropic rates the risk of high-stakes misaligned behaviour low, with outside testing by the UK AI Security Institute and METR, and says the models suspected evaluation more often than recent models. Distillation defences and preserved thinking extended to all accounts
- Data use: Requires 30-day retention and is outside zero data retention unless Anthropic expressly authorises it, per the model page
- Prices: Claude Fable 5.2 input $8 per 1M tokens; Claude Fable 5.2 cached input $0.20 per 1M tokens; Claude Fable 5.2 output $40 per 1M tokens

- Scores: Reliability 60, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 90, Agent ergonomics 95, Security & auth 92, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 91, Transparency & trust 85 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Model reading for claude-fable-5-2 on the Claude API. · Schema & documentation, Model reading for claude-fable-5-2 on the Claude API. · Agent ergonomics, Model reading for claude-fable-5-2 on the Claude API. · Security & auth, Model reading for claude-fable-5-2 on the Claude API. · Payments & pricing, Model reading for claude-fable-5-2 on the Claude API. · Maintenance & community, Model reading for claude-fable-5-2 on the Claude API. · Transparency & trust, Model reading for claude-fable-5-2 on the Claude API.
- Sources: 56, open questions: 3, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: inference.llm
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/claude-fable-5-2.json
- Its vendor verifies the listing with `verify_listing` or `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` (the full twin says how); no effect on the grade.
- Support: https://support.claude.com/en; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Call https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages with model claude-fable-5-2 and your key
2. Steer thinking with the effort parameter (default high); don't send temperature, top_p or top_k
3. Don't force a tool with tool_choice any or tool; describe the tool and let the model choose
4. Thinking blocks from it are read only by Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, so keep them out of other models' context
5. Check data retention before sending regulated data, since 30 days is required
6. Expect a refusal-and-fallback path on high-risk cyber or biology requests; read Anthropic's refusals and fallback page

## Connect

```bash
curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages \
  -H "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" -H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"claude-fable-5-2","max_tokens":1024,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}]}'
```

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