Output tokens cost $55.00 per million on Claude Fable 5 and $15.00 per million on Kimi K3. Input tokens cost $11.00 per million on Claude Fable 5 and $3.00 per million on Kimi K3. Cached input tokens are billed at $1.10 per million on Claude Fable 5 and $0.30 per million on Kimi K3. Context lengths are 1,000,000 tokens on Claude Fable 5 and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 2.4s on Claude Fable 5 and 0.9s on Kimi K3. Measured output throughput is 51.4 tok/s on Claude Fable 5 and 73.1 tok/s on Kimi K3. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Claude Fable 5 scores 1551 and Kimi K3 scores 1531.
Claude Fable 5
Kimi K3Anthropic's most capable widely released model, for the most demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work（This model is extremely expensive and is not recommended for casual use.）
Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Kimi K3: $15.00/M output tokens; Claude Fable 5: $55.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Fable 5: 1551; Kimi K3: 1531 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Kimi K3: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Claude Fable 5 accepts 1,000,000 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Fable 5 and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3.
Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Claude Fable 5 at 51.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Claude Fable 5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.
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