Claude Fable 5.2 costs $26.54 per task, 2.6x the runner-up and 100x the cheapest
weswinder · x · 2026-11-10
A cost-per-task chart from the Intelligence Index is making the rounds: Claude Fable 5.2 (max) tops the list at $26.54/task — about 2.6x Claude Opus 5.5 (max) at $10.04 and 100x MiMo-V2.6-Pro at $0.26. Other notables: Grok 4.7 (xhigh) $7.77, Gemini 4 Carbon (high) $7.76, Muse (max) $6.95, GPT-6 Astra (max) $6.24, GLM-5.3 (max) $5.01, Kimi K3.1 Pro $3.68. The poster quips that per-task cost is 'literally the only downside of Anthropic models right now.'
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