Claude Sonnet 5 vs Claude Fable 5
Anthropic's two current-generation flagships, balanced Sonnet against literary Fable.
What the numbers say
- Claude Sonnet 5 is about 5.0x cheaper on output tokens (110 vs 550 credits per 1M).
- Both take the same 1M-token context window.
- Claude Sonnet 5 is the newer release (June 2026 vs June 2026).
Derived from the live registry Zeplik routes and bills against. Credits: 1 credit = $0.10, raw provider rate with a 1.10x margin.
Side by side
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic
Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max,...
- Provider
- Anthropic
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Input price
- 22.0 credits / 1M tokens ($2.00 raw)
- Output price
- 110 credits / 1M tokens ($10.00 raw)
- Vision (image input)
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Extended reasoning
- No
Best for
- Hard problems where answer quality matters more than cost: strategy, analysis, difficult writing
- Very long documents and codebases: a 1M-token window fits entire books or repositories in one conversation
- Working with images: screenshots, charts, photos and scanned documents alongside text
- Tool use and agents: reliably calls functions, so it can search, run skills and drive workflows
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
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...
- Provider
- Anthropic
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Input price
- 110 credits / 1M tokens ($10.00 raw)
- Output price
- 550 credits / 1M tokens ($50.00 raw)
- Vision (image input)
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Extended reasoning
- No
Best for
- Hard problems where answer quality matters more than cost: strategy, analysis, difficult writing
- Very long documents and codebases: a 1M-token window fits entire books or repositories in one conversation
- Working with images: screenshots, charts, photos and scanned documents alongside text
- Tool use and agents: reliably calls functions, so it can search, run skills and drive workflows
Try both on Zeplik
The honest answer to most model debates is to run your own prompt on both. Zeplik puts Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Fable 5 in the same chat, so you can switch mid-conversation and compare answers on the work you actually do.