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Claude Fable 5.2

Claude Fable 5.2 scores 86.5% overall on Roboflow's Vision Evals (November 10, 2026 snapshot), #2 of 67 models (Gemini 4 Argon leads at 87.5%).

Its best task is counting (86.5%, #1 of 67) and it ranks lowest on identification (96.9%, #7 of 67), a task most models score well on. It is a proprietary model from Anthropic, so commercial use follows Anthropic's terms.

Vision Evals86.5%Field median 64.1% · #2 of 67
Cost$0.031/ sampleField median $0.0033 · #63 of 67
Speed9.3s/ sampleField median 10.2s · #25 of 67

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Claude Fable 5.2 Vision Evals

Vision Evals is Roboflow's ground-truth benchmark: every model runs the same real-world samples across five vision tasks, and answers are scored against ground truth.

Evals updated November 10, 2026Pricing updated November 10, 2026

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

TaskScoreMedianRank
Counting86.5%65.3%#1 of 67
Reasoning88.1%59.2%#2 of 67
OCR79.5%63.9%#3 of 51

Weak spot

TaskScoreMedianRank
Identification96.9%84.4%#7 of 67

Above the field median, but its lowest rank.

Score by taskScoreRank
Counting
86.5%#1
Reasoning
88.1%#2
OCR
79.5%#3
Object Detection
81.6%#4
Identification
96.9%#7

Claude Fable 5.2Field median

Ranks out of 67 models (51 for OCR)

Results by task

TaskScoreField (0 to 100)RankCost / sampleSpeed
Object Detection (low)
81.6%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.2 to 81.9
#4 of 67$0.04813.25s
Object Detection (high)
83.3%
±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.8 to 83.7
#4 of 35$0.05514.79s
Counting (low)
86.5%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.5 to 86.5
#1 of 67$0.0156.42s
Counting (high)
92.8%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.9 to 94.6
#1 of 35$0.0218.08s
Identification (low)
96.9%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9
#7 of 67$0.0115.60s
Identification (high)
94.8%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 96.9
#9 of 35$0.0125.98s
OCR (low)
79.5%
#3 of 51$0.0309.03s
Single value
64.8%
Transcription
94.7%
Structured JSON
92.8%
Text localization
74.5%
OCR (high)
84.8%
#2 of 51$0.04312.14s
Single value
77.4%
Transcription
97.9%
Structured JSON
94.1%
Text localization
72.9%
Reasoning (low)
88.1%
±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.8 to 89.4
#2 of 67$0.0166.28s
Reasoning (high)
92.0%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.4 to 93.4
#1 of 54$0.0248.48s
  • Thinking longer helps: 1.7 points higher on object detection at high effort for 1.2x the cost and 1.1x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 6.3 points higher on counting at high effort for 1.4x the cost and 1.3x the latency.
  • Thinking longer does not help: 2.1 points lower on identification at high effort for 1.2x the cost and 1.1x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 5.3 points higher on ocr at high effort for 1.4x the cost and 1.3x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 4 points higher on reasoning at high effort for 1.5x the cost and 1.4x the latency.

Price vs. performance

Score vs. cost

Overall benchmark score against estimated cost per sample, on a log scale. Upper-left is the sweet spot: high quality at low cost.

66 of 67 models plotted (the rest have no measured figure for this axis) · scores and efficiency pooled across all five tasks at low effort · Claude Fable 5.2 highlighted

Claude Fable 5.2 scores are the mean of 3 runs per task at both low and high effort; OCR is a single preliminary run · Methodology

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Claude Fable 5.2 Overview

Claude Fable 5.2 is a proprietary multimodal model from Anthropic, released on November 9, 2026. It accepts text and images and produces text, with a one million token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens. Adaptive thinking is always enabled, with an effort setting that controls reasoning. Anthropic positions Fable for demanding reasoning and long-running technical work, including coding and analysis of visual inputs.

Claude Fable 5.2 Pricing

Claude Fable 5.2 costs $8.00 per 1M input tokens and $40.00 per 1M output tokens.

Input$8.00 / 1M tokens
Output$40.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input$0.200 / 1M tokens

Pricing updated Nov 10, 2026

Claude Fable 5.2 License

Proprietary

Claude Fable 5.2 is proprietary: the weights are not distributed, and the Claude Fable 5.2 license is the vendor's commercial terms of service that you accept when you call the API.

Commercial use
Permitted under the vendor terms, typically metered per token or per request, with the vendor usage policy applying to your inputs and outputs.
Modification
Not available. Claude Fable 5.2 weights are closed, so you can configure prompts and use vendor-hosted fine-tuning where it is offered, but you cannot modify the model itself.
Redistribution
Not permitted. You cannot self-host or resell the model; you build on the hosted API instead.

Vendor terms govern data retention, whether your inputs can be trained on, rate limits, and regional availability, and they can change with notice. Review them if you handle regulated or customer data.

Do I need a commercial license for Claude Fable 5.2?

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Claude Fable 5.2 Details

Details

Categoryclosed
ModalityMultimodal
Context Window1.0M
LicenseProprietary
Release DateNov 2026

Vision Tasks

CaptioningChart Question AnsweringClassificationDocument Question AnsweringImage TaggingMulti-Label ClassificationOCRObject DetectionVision LanguageVisual Question Answering

Other Anthropic Fable models

Other versions in the same family as Claude Fable 5.2.

Frequently Asked Questions About Claude Fable 5.2 Vision

Yes. Claude Fable 5.2 accepts image input and handles OCR, object counting, identification, visual reasoning, and object detection. On Roboflow's Vision Evals its strongest task is Counting at 86.5% (#1 of 67 at low effort).

Yes, and it is one of the model's strongest vision skills: it scores 79.5% (#3 of 51 at low effort) on Vision Evals OCR, which covers single readings, full transcriptions, structured JSON, and locating text with boxes. Within that, full transcriptions score 94.7%, and returning the fields of a label or form as JSON scores 92.8%.

Yes. On Vision Evals, Claude Fable 5.2 scores 81.6% mAP@50 on object detection (#4 of 67 at low effort) and 86.5% judge-graded accuracy on object counting.

On our benchmark's task mix, Claude Fable 5.2 averages $0.03 per sample at $8.00 per 1M input and $40.00 per 1M output tokens (#63 of 67 on cost), with an average speed of 9.3s per sample across the benchmark. Actual cost depends on your images and prompts.

On the overall Vision Evals ranking, Claude Fable 5.2 sits #2 of 67 at 86.5%, just behind Gemini 4 Argon (87.5%) and just ahead of GPT-6.1 Terra (85.8%). See the full side-by-side: Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 Argon.