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Claude Fable 5 vs SAM 3

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Claude Fable 5 vs SAM 3 Comparison Table

Evals updated October 8, 2026Pricing updated October 10, 2026

PropertyClaude Fable 5SAM 3
OrganizationAnthropicMeta
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJun 2026Nov 2025
Context Window1.0M—
ParametersUnknownUnknown
LicenseProprietaryCustom
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$10.00No published price
Output $/1M$50.00No published price
Vision Tasks
Object DetectionDemoDemo
CaptioningDemoNot listed
Chart Question AnsweringSupportedNot listed
ClassificationDemoNot listed
Document Question AnsweringSupportedNot listed
Image TaggingSupportedNot listed
Instance SegmentationNot listedSupported
Multi-Label ClassificationSupportedNot listed
OCRDemoNot listed
Open Vocabulary Object DetectionNot listedSupported
Promptable Concept SegmentationNot listedDemo
Video Object TrackingNot listedSupported
Vision LanguageSupportedNot listed
Visual Question AnsweringDemoNot listed
Zero Shot SegmentationNot listedSupported
Model Features
Foundation VisionSupportedSupported
Multimodal VisionSupportedSupported
LLMs with Vision CapabilitiesSupportedNot listed
Zero-shot DetectionNot listedSupported
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
71.7%
Not evaluated
Avg cost / sample$0.039–
Avg speed / sample9.54s–
By task
Object Detection
56.4%
$0.059
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Counting
63.5%
$0.017
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Identification
100.0%
$0.014
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OCR (low)
72.3%
$0.041
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by category
Single value
70.9%
Transcription
90.2%
Structured JSON
85.7%
Text localization
31.6%
OCR (high)
74.2%
$0.075
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by category
Single value
72.2%
Transcription
87.7%
Structured JSON
89.2%
Text localization
33.3%
Reasoning (low)
66.2%
$0.018
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Reasoning (high)
66.2%
$0.024
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Claude Fable 5 vs SAM 3: Overview

Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's first generally available Mythos-class large language model, released on June 9, 2026. It is built for long-horizon, asynchronous, and agentic tasks that prior Claude generations could not sustain, including multi-day autonomous coding sessions, complex knowledge work, and document-heavy analysis. The model supports a 1 million token context window with up to 128,000 output tokens per request and uses adaptive thinking as its sole reasoning mode, where the effort level is adjustable but raw chain-of-thought is never returned. Vision capabilities allow the model to parse diagrams, charts, and tables embedded in files and PDFs, and to use visual feedback to evaluate its own coding outputs against design goals. On benchmarks such as SWE-Bench Pro, the model scores 80.3% compared to 69.2% for Claude Opus 4.8, and it leads on CursorBench 3.1 for autonomous coding workflows.

Claude Fable 5 shares the same underlying model weights as Claude Mythos 5, but is deployed with safety classifiers that automatically reroute queries in high-risk domains — including cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry — to Claude Opus 4.8. These classifiers trigger in fewer than 5% of sessions on average. As a designated Covered Model, all traffic is subject to mandatory 30-day data retention to support safety monitoring. The model is available via the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. Anthropic has not publicly disclosed parameter count, architecture details, or training data composition for this model.

SAM 3

Released on November 19th, 2025, Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) is a zero-shot image segmentation model that “detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts.” This model was developed by Meta as the third model in the Segment Anything series.

Unlike its previous SAM models (Segment Anything and Segment Anything 2), you can provide SAM 3 with the prompt “shipping container” and it will generate precise segmentation masks for all shipping containers in an image. SAM 3 generates segmentation masks that correspond to the location of the objects found with a text prompt.

Frequently Asked Questions

SAM 3 has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals, so this comparison shows specs, licensing, and pricing rather than benchmark scores.

Claude Fable 5 is released under Proprietary, while SAM 3 uses Custom. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.

Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for object detection in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.