Claude Fable 5.2 (max) – Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

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 45.0 minutes per Intelligence Index task, Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) is notably slow compared with the median of 12.9 minutes for comparable models (lower is better).