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Claude Fable 5 Paid vs GPT-5.5 Paid

Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5 compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.

Prices & specs refreshed from live data · OpenSourceAI.tech

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Choose GPT-5.5 for the lower output price ($30/M vs $50/M). It also gives you the larger 1.1M context window.

Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5 specs

SpecClaude Fable 5GPT-5.5
MakerAnthropicOpenAI
TypeProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M tokens1.1M tokens
Input price$10/M$5/M
Output price$50/M$30/M
Vision / multimodalYesYes
Tool / function callingYesYes
Self-hostableNo (API only)No (API only)
LicenseProprietaryProprietary

Feature comparison

CapabilityClaude Fable 5GPT-5.5
Open weights (downloadable)
Self-hostable
Runs fully offline
Vision / multimodal
Tool / function calling
1M+ context window

Benchmarks: Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5

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

Claude Fable 5
GPT-5.5
Intelligence index
59.9
54.8
Coding index
76.5
74.9
GPQA
92.6%
93.5%
Humanity's Last Exam
53.3%
44.3%
Long Context Reasoning
70%
74.3%
SciCode
60.2%
56.1%
IFBench
63.5%
75.9%
τ²-Bench
98.5%
93.9%
τ-Bench Banking
26.8%
31.3%
Terminal-Bench
84.6%
84.3%
Terminal-Bench Hard
62.9%
60.6%
Speed
70.3 tok/s
86.2 tok/s
Latency
60.4s
31.22s
Intelligence per $
3
4.9

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 score

🤝 Neck and neck on these criteria (2.9 vs 3.1 / 5).
CriterionClaude Fable 5GPT-5.5
Cost-efficiency2.03.0
Context window5.05.0
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...

GPT-5.5 Paid

OpenAI · Proprietary

GPT-5.5 is OpenAI’s frontier model designed for complex professional workloads, building on GPT-5.4 with stronger reasoning, higher reliability, and improved token efficiency on hard tasks. It features a 1M+ token...

Other models in these families

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

Other variants tracked
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Frequently asked questions

Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5 — which is cheaper?

GPT-5.5 is cheaper on output ($30/M vs $50/M).

Which has the larger context window?

GPT-5.5 offers the larger context window (1.1M tokens).

Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5 — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose GPT-5.5 for the lower output price ($30/M vs $50/M). It also gives you the larger 1.1M context window.

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