Claude Fable 5.1 vs Qwen3.8 Max: API pricing

As of Oct 21, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 costs $10.00 input / $50.00 output per million tokens from Anthropic, and Qwen3.8 Max costs $2.00 / $6.00 from Qwen. For 10M input and 2M output tokens a month, Claude Fable 5.1 comes to $200.00 and Qwen3.8 Max to $32.00, so Qwen3.8 Max is 84% cheaper than Claude Fable 5.1. On LMArena, Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher, 1512 against 1483.

DetailClaude Fable 5.1Qwen3.8 Max
Est. per month$200.00official price$32.00official priceCheaper
MakerAnthropicQwen
Official input / output$10.00 / $50.00per million tokens$2.00 / $6.00per million tokens
Cached input$0.25$0.25
Cheapest seller$10.00 / $50.00Anthropic$1.65 / $4.95DeepInfra
Sellers99
Context1M1M
LMArena overall1512 · #31483 · #15
LMArena coding1532 · #61502 · #22
FeaturesVisionReasoningTool callingWeb searchVisionReasoningTool callingWeb search

Every seller's price: Claude Fable 5.1 · Qwen3.8 Max

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