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| Attribute | Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking)claude-opus-4-6-thinking | Claude Fable 5.2claude-fable-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $5.00 / 1M | $8.00 / 1M |
| Output | $25.00 / 1M | $40.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $6.25 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $10.00 / 1M | $16.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.50 / 1M | $0.20 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable model for coding and long-running professional workflows, designed for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts. It demonstrates strong performance on large codebases, complex refactoring, and multi-step debugging, with improved contextual understanding, deeper problem decomposition, and higher reliability on challenging engineering tasks compared to earlier generations. Beyond software development, Opus 4.6 excels at sustained knowledge work, producing near production-ready documents, technical plans, and analyses in a single pass while maintaining coherence across long outputs and extended sessions. Its strength in persistence, judgment, and structured execution makes it well suited for technical design, migration planning, and end-to-end project execution. | 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. |