AI Models · Paid vs Paid

Claude Fable 5 Paid vs Claude Haiku 4.5 Paid

Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.

Claude Fable 5 — full profile ›  ·  Claude Haiku 4.5 — full profile ›

Prices & specs refreshed from live data · olud.ai

Open-model prices = cheapest provider via OpenRouter; official maker rates may be higher.

Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 for the lower output price ($5/M vs $50/M). Choose Claude Fable 5 if you need the larger 1M context window.

Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 specs

SpecClaude Fable 5Claude Haiku 4.5
MakerAnthropicAnthropic
TypeProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M tokens200K tokens
Input price$10/M$1/M
Output price$50/M$5/M
Vision / multimodalYesYes
Tool / function callingYesYes
Self-hostableNo (API only)No (API only)
LicenseProprietaryProprietary

Feature comparison

CapabilityClaude Fable 5Claude Haiku 4.5
Open weights (downloadable)✗✗
Self-hostable✗✗
Runs fully offline✗✗
Vision / multimodal✓✓
Tool / function calling✓✓
1M+ context window✓✗

Benchmarks: Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5

Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).

Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers 4.9× more intelligence per dollar.
Claude Fable 5
Claude Haiku 4.5
Intelligence index
59.9
29.6
Coding index
76.5
43.9
GPQA
92.6%
67.2%
Humanity's Last Exam
53.3%
9.7%
Long Context Reasoning
70%
70.3%
SciCode
60.2%
43.3%
IFBench
63.5%
54.3%
τ²-Bench
98.5%
54.7%
τ-Bench Banking
26.8%
9.1%
Terminal-Bench
84.6%
44.2%
Terminal-Bench Hard
62.9%
27.3%
Math index
–
83.7
MMLU-Pro
–
76%
LiveCodeBench
–
61.5%
AIME 2025
–
83.7%
Speed
59.4 tok/s
144.1 tok/s
Latency
61.86s
11.56s
Intelligence per $
3
14.8

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How Claude Fable 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 score

🤝 Neck and neck on these criteria (2.9 vs 3.1 / 5).
CriterionClaude Fable 5Claude Haiku 4.5
Cost-efficiency2.04.0
Context window5.04.0
Openness1.51.5
Self-hosting1.01.0
Multimodality5.05.0

Scores come from live data — output price (cost), context length, open vs closed weights (openness & self-hosting) and vision/tool support (multimodality). Raw task quality isn't scored here; it depends on your benchmark — see the verdict.

What each model is

Claude Fable 5 Paid

Anthropic · Proprietary

Claude Fable 5 is a Mythos-class model from Anthropic, built for autonomous knowledge work and coding. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, with reasoning support and...

Claude Haiku 4.5 Paid

Anthropic · Proprietary

Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance...

Other models in these families

These variants are tracked but not compared here — one page per family keeps the comparison readable.

Other variants tracked
Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)Claude 3 HaikuAnthropic Claude Haiku Latest

Frequently asked questions

Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 — which is cheaper?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper on output ($5/M vs $50/M).

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Fable 5 offers the larger context window (1M tokens).

Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 for the lower output price ($5/M vs $50/M). Choose Claude Fable 5 if you need the larger 1M context window.

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