Sonar is 30.0× cheaper per million tokens (blended). Claude Fable 5 has the larger context window (1,000,000 vs 127,072 tokens, 7.9×).
Claude Fable 5 vs Sonar
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Claude Fable 5
Anthropic · anthropic__claude-fable-5
Sonar
Perplexity · perplexity__sonar
Identity
| Field | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | perplexity__sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Perplexity |
| Slug | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | perplexity__sonar |
| Status | live | live |
| Open weights | No | No |
| License | — | — |
| HuggingFace | — | — |
Quality
| Field | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | perplexity__sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Quality index (0–100) | 91.1 | — |
Cost
| Field | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | perplexity__sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M tokens | $10.00 | $1.00 |
| Cached input $ / 1M | $1.00 | — |
| Output $ / 1M tokens | $50.00 | $1.00 |
Context
| Field | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | perplexity__sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Max context tokens | 1,000,000 | 127,072 |
| Max output tokens | 128,000 | 114,364 |
Modalities
| Field | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | perplexity__sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Input | text, image, file | text, image |
| Output | text | text |