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Anthropic · 01 Sept 2026

Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic’s updated Fable tier for sustained frontier coding and demanding knowledge work.

ImpactMajor

High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.

LifecycleGA
Since 01 Sept 2026
ContextunknownAccessAPIWeightsclosedPriceunknownCheckConfirmed
Availability
StatusTrackedChannelAPIWeightsClosedPricingUnclearDocsLinked
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Release is backed by first-party product or API change documentation.

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Model lineage

Where Claude Fable 5.1 sits.

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PreviousClaude Fable 509 Jun 2026
Current briefClaude Fable 5.101 Sept 2026
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Model lifecycle

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LifecycleGA
Since 01 Sept 2026

Available through a public product or API channel.

Status since
01 Sept 2026
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Change Lens

What actually changed.

Normalized from the release note so different labs can be compared by the same fields, not just by launch copy.

Compared withClaude Fable 5

General · Coding · Multimodal

CapabilityGeneral · Coding · Multimodalchanged
AvailabilityAPI + Claudenew
PricingNo pricing change found in the indexed note.unknown
ContextNo context-window change found in the indexed note.unknown
EvidenceFirst-party sourcenew
ConfidenceConfirmed

Evidence is first-party; comparison labels are normalized by Radar.

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Evidence behind the brief.

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Announcement01 Sept 2026
LifecycleGenerally available
AvailabilityAPI + Claude
PricingNo pricing change found in the indexed note.
ContextNo context-window change found in the indexed note.
ConfidenceConfirmed
Last checked01 Sept 2026
Needs review

Pricing, Context are not clearly specified in the indexed source note.

Why it matters

Replaces the original Fable 5 entry with the current first-party model version.

Capabilities
GeneralCodingMultimodal
Source

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