Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Fable 5.1

A side-by-side comparison of Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 — intelligence, context, capabilities, and price.

Spec
Claude Opus 5.5 logoClaude Opus 5.5250 credits to start
Claude Fable 5.1 logoClaude Fable 5.1250 credits to start
Context window1M1M
Streaming
Reasoning
Tool use
Web search
Vision (image input)
Document input
Video
Audio
Claude Opus 5.5 pricing
  • Input$4.6 / 1M tokens
  • Cached input$0.23 / 1M tokens
  • 5m cache write$5.75 / 1M tokens
  • 1h cache write$9.2 / 1M tokens
  • Output$23 / 1M tokens
  • Web search (when used)$11.5 / 1,000 searchs

List prices plus 15%. Higher reasoning can use more output tokens. TryAI charges a one-credit minimum and rounds each run's aggregate cost up once.

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Claude Fable 5.1 pricing
  • Input$11.5 / 1M tokens
  • Cached input$0.2875 / 1M tokens
  • 5m cache write$14.375 / 1M tokens
  • 1h cache write$23 / 1M tokens
  • Output$57.5 / 1M tokens
  • Web search (when used)$11.5 / 1,000 searchs

List prices plus 15%. Higher reasoning can use more output tokens. TryAI charges a one-credit minimum and rounds each run's aggregate cost up once.

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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Fable 5.1: FAQ

Is Claude Opus 5.5 better than Claude Fable 5.1?
Anthropic's newest Opus for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work. $4/$20 per million tokens, with cache reads at $0.20/M. Vendor-reported Terminal-Bench 4.0 66.4% and GDPval-AA 1846 Elo at max effort. Anthropic's newest frontier model for coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic runs. Beats both Fable 5 and Opus 5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (55.8%), CursorBench 3.2 (73.4%), and Humanity's Last Exam (65.0% with tools), at 75% cheaper cache reads than Fable 5. The best choice depends on your workload — compare context window, capabilities, and price above, or try both on TryAI.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or Claude Fable 5.1?
See the pricing rows above for live per-token or per-generation costs. TryAI bills both from one pay-as-you-go balance.