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| Attribute | Claude Fable 5.1claude-fable-5.1 | Grok 2 1212grok-2-1212 | GLM 5.3glm-5.3 | Qwen3.8 27Bqwen3.8-27b |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||||
| Input | $10.00 / 1M | $6.00 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M | $0.45 / 1M |
| Output | $50.00 / 1M | $30.00 / 1M | $4.40 / 1M | $3.20 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $12.50 / 1M | $6.00 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M | $0.45 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $20.00 / 1M | $6.00 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M | $0.45 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $1.00 / 1M | $6.00 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M | $0.45 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||||
| Max context | 1M | 131.1K | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||||
| Vision | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||||
| Provider | Anthropic | xAI | Z.AI | Alibaba |
| Category | chat | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — | — |
| Description | ||||
| Summary | Claude Fable 5.1 is an upgraded version of Fable 5, delivering broad improvements with particularly strong gains in agentic coding, long-running workflows, and professional knowledge work. It excels at large code refactors, front-end and visual code generation, financial analysis, and complex analytical tasks. Compared with Fable 5, it also produces more concise plans and summaries while maintaining strong performance across extended tasks, making it a natural upgrade for existing Fable workflows and a strong option alongside Opus 5 for reasoning-intensive applications. | — | GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's large-scale reasoning model designed for complex software engineering and long-horizon agentic workflows. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, enabling sustained reasoning across large codebases and extended multi-step tasks. Building on GLM-5.2, it delivers stronger coding performance while improving the balance between capability and token efficiency, making it well suited for autonomous coding agents, large-scale engineering workflows, and complex task execution. | Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen, designed for coding, professional knowledge work, research, and multimodal interaction. It combines strong text and visual understanding with capabilities optimized for sustained, real-world agentic tasks. The model supports flexible thinking modes that can be enabled for deeper reasoning or disabled for faster execution, making it well suited for long-running agents, multimodal workflows, coding assistants, and cost-conscious self-hosted deployments. |