Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Claude Fable 5

Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6GA
8.8
AI Panel
Anthropic
Claude Fable 5GA
9.5
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Family / tierClaude 4 · SonnetClaude 5 · Fable
StatusGAGA
Released2026-02-162026-06-08
Knowledge cutoff2025-08

Architecture & context

Context window1M1M
Max output tokens64K128K
Input modalitiestext, imagetext, image, file
Reasoning modeoptionalalways
Open weightsNoNo

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input$3$10
Output$15$50
Cached input$0.3$1
Batch input$1.5$5
Free tierYesNo

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)75
Time to first token (s)1.8
Latency tierfastslow

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputsNoNo
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
CloudsBedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI FoundryBedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry
ComplianceSOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001

AI Panel scoring

Unified score8.89.5
Decision Maker99.5
Domain Strategist99.5
Finance Lead97
Domain Practitioner99.5
Power User8.59
Skeptic87.5
Value score96.5

Benchmarks

MMLU89.1
MMLU-Pro87.3
GPQA Diamond74.1
AIME 202594
MATH-50089
SWE-bench Verified79.695
HumanEval98
LiveCodeBench79.7
MMMU83.6
Terminal-Bench88
LMArena Elo1460
LMArena Coding Elo1500
Artificial Analysis Index51

Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.