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Claude Fable 5.2
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Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis
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Model summary
Intelligence
Updated
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1
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74
65
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
4 out of 4 units for Intelligence.
Performance
#
71
/
72
Time to first answer token
215.95s
Output speed
98 tok/s
46.4
Time per Intelligence Index task (minutes)
4 out of 4 units for Performance.
Cost
#
73
/
73
In
$8.00
Out
$40.00
Cache discount
98%
$26.54
Cost per Intelligence Index task
4 out of 4 units for Cost.
Verbosity
#
72
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73
Input tokens
28.3B
Output/input
0.97%
275M
Output tokens from Intelligence Index
4 out of 4 units for Verbosity.
Comparison Summary
Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) is amongst the leading models in intelligence, but particularly expensive when comparing to other models of similar price. It's also notably slow per task and very verbose. The model supports text and image input, outputs text, and has a 1M tokens context window.
Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) scores 65 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among comparable models (median: 40). When evaluating the Intelligence Index, it generated 275M tokens, which is very verbose in comparison to the median of 72.8M.
Pricing for Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) is $8.00 per 1M input tokens (expensive, median: $2.00) and $40.00 per 1M output tokens (expensive, median: $10.00). On average, it costs $26.54 per task to evaluate Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) on the Intelligence Index.
At 46.4 minutes per Intelligence Index task, Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) is notably slow compared with the median of 12.7 minutes for comparable models (lower is better).
Technical specifications
Reasoning
Yes
This page shows the reasoning version of this model.
A non-reasoning variant may also exist.
Input modality
Supports: text and image
Output modality
Supports: text
Context window
1M
~1500 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font
237 models in this class
Metrics are compared against models of the same class:
Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:
Tiny: ≤4B parameters
Small: 4B–40B parameters
Medium: 40B–150B parameters
Large: >150B parameters
Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:
<$0.15 per 1M tokens
$0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
>$1 per 1M tokens
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Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better
No publicly available API
Time per Task
Inference time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better
No publicly available API
Cost per Task
Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better
No publicly available API
Intelligence
Updated
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1
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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1
includes:
AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1
. See
Intelligence Index methodology
for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.
Open Weights / Proprietary
Reasoning / Non-Reasoning
Text Only / Multimodal Inputs
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1
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Proprietary
Open Weights (Commercial Use Restricted)
Open Weights
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1
includes:
AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1
. See
Intelligence Index methodology
for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.
Open Weights
Indicates whether the model weights are available. Models are labelled as 'Commercial Use Restricted' if commercial use is limited by conditions, and as 'Non-commercial' if the license prohibits commercial use.
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task
Intelligence Index vs. Time per Task
Intelligence Index vs. Output Tokens per Task
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task
27 of 734 models
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line
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Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1
includes:
AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1
. See
Intelligence Index methodology
for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.
Capability Indexes
Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries
Finance & Accounting
Strategy & Ops
Legal
Healthcare & Medical
Engineering
Economics
Artificial Analysis Finance & Accounting Index
Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
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Benchmarks
Evaluations
Evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · AA-PersonalityBench scores are percentile ranks from 1 to 100
Coding
Agentic
Tool Use
Private Dataset
User Interaction
Finance
Medical
Legal
Intelligence Index
Personality
Long Context
Multimodal
Instruction Following
Faithfulness
Writing
Business
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23 of 44 evaluations
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AA-Briefcase v1.1
Agentic knowledge work, Elo
AA-Omniscience v1.1 Accuracy
Updated
Knowledge
AA-Omniscience v1.1 Non-Hallucination Rate
Updated
1 - hallucination rate
AutomationBench-AA
Agentic SaaS workflows
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1
New
Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal
FrontierCode 2.0
New
Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories
HLE-Diamond
New
Reasoning & knowledge
GDP.pdf
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Terminal-Bench 4.0
Agentic coding & terminal use
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)
Physics reasoning
AA-AnalystAgent
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Harvey LAB-AA v1.1
Updated
Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate
EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA
Agentic business operations
GDPval-AA v2.1
Agentic real-world work tasks, Elo
AA-3