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| Attribute | Claude Fable 5.2claude-fable-5.2 | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon | Qwen3 VL 8B Thinkingqwen3-vl-8b-thinking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $8.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $0.18 / 1M |
| Output | $40.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M | $2.10 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $10.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $0.18 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $16.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $0.18 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.20 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $0.18 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | 256K |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | No |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba | |
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Claude Fable 5.2 is Anthropic's most capable model for advanced technical work and open-ended problem solving, delivering significant improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision over Fable 5.1. It excels at exceptionally complex tasks, including large-scale software migrations, electronic system design, and advanced scientific and mathematical research. With up to 30% faster output generation, clearer communication, and always-on adaptive extended thinking, Fable 5.2 supports configurable reasoning effort from low to max (default high), with thinking preserved across turns. Designed for frontier engineering, scientific discovery, and ambitious long-horizon agentic workflows, it complements Opus 5.5 as a specialized option for the most demanding technical challenges. | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. | Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is the reasoning-focused version of the Qwen3-VL-8B multimodal model, built for advanced visual and textual reasoning across images, documents, and video. It adds deeper vision-language fusion and deliberate reasoning paths, supports very long context (256K–1M tokens), and excels at STEM problem solving, causal analysis, and multi-step video understanding — while retaining strong OCR, multilingual capability, and high-quality text generation. |