Claude Fable 5 vs Seed 1.8: API price and specs

Seed 1.8 is 96% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on input price.

Seed 1.8 is 99% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on output price.

Seed 1.8 is 98% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Claude Fable 5 has a 290.6% larger context than Seed 1.8.

Field	Claude Fable 5	Seed 1.8
Lowest input, per 1M	$3.00 +2637.5%	$0.11
Median input, per 1M	$10.00 +3900%	$0.25
Lowest output, per 1M	$18.50 +6652.4%	$0.27
Median output, per 1M	$50.00 +2400%	$2.00
Lowest unit price	$0.001 / request	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$6.70 +3975.8%	$0.16
Context	1M	256K +74.4%
Max output	128K +2.3%	131K
Providers	34	12 +64.7%
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, US	US
Accepts	application/pdf, file, image, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text	audio, document, image, text, video
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	xpersona	aihubmix

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

302ai, aihubmix, aiml, cometapi, deepinfra, edenai, fastrouter, ofox, requesty, trustedrouter, vercel, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Seed 1.8?

Seed 1.8 is 96% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on input price. Seed 1.8 is 99% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on output price. Seed 1.8 is 98% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Claude Fable 5 or Seed 1.8?

Claude Fable 5: 1M tokens; Seed 1.8: 256K tokens.

Where can I use both Claude Fable 5 and Seed 1.8?

302ai, aihubmix, aiml, cometapi, deepinfra, edenai, fastrouter, ofox, requesty, trustedrouter, vercel, zenmux