Claude Fable 5 vs Phi-4-multimodal-instruct: API price and specs

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is 98% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on input price.

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is 99% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on output price.

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is 99% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Claude Fable 5 has a 662.9% larger context than Phi-4-multimodal-instruct.

Field	Claude Fable 5	Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Lowest input, per 1M	$3.00 +5900%	$0.05
Median input, per 1M	$10.00 +15284.6%	$0.065
Lowest output, per 1M	$18.50 +18400%	$0.10
Median output, per 1M	$50.00 +23709.5%	$0.21
Lowest unit price	$0.001 / request	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$6.70 +9471.4%	$0.07
Context	1M	131K +86.9%
Max output	128K	4K +96.8%
Providers	34	2 +94.1%
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, US	—
Accepts	application/pdf, file, image, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text	audio, image, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	xpersona	deepinfra

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

azure, deepinfra

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is 98% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on input price. Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is 99% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on output price. Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is 99% cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Claude Fable 5 or Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

Claude Fable 5: 1M tokens; Phi-4-multimodal-instruct: 131K tokens.

Where can I use both Claude Fable 5 and Phi-4-multimodal-instruct?

azure, deepinfra