Claude Fable 5 vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Anthropic · Jun 2026
The first GA model of Anthropic's Mythos class — a tier above Opus — and the current SWE-bench Verified leader, at $10/$50 per 1M tokens.
Google · Jul 2025
Ten cents per million input tokens with multimodal support — the price floor of the 2025 Gemini lineup.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite works out roughly 114x cheaper per blended million tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite also takes 1.0M of context versus 1M for Claude Fable 5.
Specs & pricing
| Claude Fable 5 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $10 | $0.1 |
| Output price / 1M | $50 | $0.4 |
| Context window | 1M | 1.0M |
| Max output | 128K | 66K |
| Open weights | no | no |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image, audio, video |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jan 2026 | Jan 2025 |
| Released | Jun 2026 | Jul 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $175.00 | $1.60 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Claude Fable 5 or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite works out roughly 114x cheaper per blended million tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite also takes 1.0M of context versus 1M for Claude Fable 5.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
- Claude Fable 5 costs $10/$50 per million input/output tokens, while Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.1/$0.4. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $175.00 versus $1.60.
- Which model is better for coding, Claude Fable 5 or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.