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Your cost (list prices, your workload)
Per month	$5,7452.5×	$5,8802.5×	$2,316cheapest
Per 1K requests	$115	$118	$46.32
Call it
Maker's own API	`claude-fable-5-1` Claude API	`gpt-6-astra` OpenAI API	`gemini-4-argon` Gemini API
Amazon Bedrock	`anthropic.claude-fable-5-1`	—	—
Google Vertex AI	`claude-fable-5-1`	—	`gemini-4-argon`
Microsoft Foundry / Azure	`claude-fable-5-1`	—	—
Gotchas	Thinking can't be turned off No forced tool_choice No prefill or sampling params	Reasoning can't be turned off Tool calling needs the Responses API No sampling params while reasoning	Introductory price ends 30 Nov 2026 Output above 64K needs long decode Background mode stops at 64K unless you set a limit
Supported features (from each maker's docs)Differences only
Tool calling	Yes	Yes	Yes
Structured outputs	Yes	Yes	Yes
Image input	Yes	Yes	Yes
PDF input	Yes	Not documented	Yes
Prompt caching	Yes	Yes	Yes
Batch API	Yes	Yes	Yes
Streaming	Not documented	Yes	Not documented
Reasoning control	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web search	Yes	Yes	Not documented
Fine-tuning	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented
Specs
Input / 1M	$10.00	$10.00	$4.00
Output / 1M	$50.00	$50.00	$20.00
Cache read / 1M	$0.25	$1.00	$0.20
Context	1M	1.05M	1M
Max output	128K	128K	1M
Knows up to	June 2026	April 2026	March 2026
Reasoning	Adaptive (always on)	Reasoning, always on (effort low → max)	Dynamic, thinking_level low / medium / high
Default effort	high	—	medium
Inputs	text, image, pdf	text, image	text, image, audio, video, pdf
Weights	Closed	Closed	Closed
Released	1 Sep 2026	3 Sep 2026	13 Oct 2026
API model ID	claude-fable-5-1	gpt-6-astra	gemini-4-argon
From each card
Built for	Coding, knowledge work and problem-solving, including novel mathematical and scientific reasoning Largest gains over Fable 5 in terminal-based scientific and engineering work, computer use, and long-horizon agentic and professional work Matches or exceeds Fable 5 at roughly half the cost per task on agentic coding benchmarks	Complex reasoning and coding Computer use and browsing Research and document creation	Multi-turn deep investigations Complex engineering tasks Deep visual understanding
Watch out for	Prompt injection gets through on fallback turns Overstates what the user authorized Guesses credentials in computer use	Oversteps permissions in agentic coding Out-of-scope attacks in hard cyber tasks Harder to monitor through its reasoning	Hallucinations Slowness or timeouts Offensive security work is blocked
Source	System Card: Claude Fable 5.1 & Claude Mythos 5.1 ↗	GPT-6 Astra System Card ↗	Gemini 4 Argon Model Card ↗
Benchmarks reported on more than one card (self-reported, settings differ)
Terminal-bench 4.0	55.8	57.9best	57.4
Terminal-Bench Science 0.1	52.6	64.6best	57.6
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)	65.0best	57.2	—
HealthBench Professionalscore	62.1	64.7best	—
AutomationBench	31.4	—	51.3best
DeepSWE v1.1	—	74.1	77.9best

Benchmark numbers come from each maker's own card. Makers run them with different settings and harnesses, so treat cross-maker differences as rough.