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AClaude Fable 5 (thinking-high alias) API
claude-fable-5-thinking-high
Claude Fable 5 (thinking-high alias) is available through APINEED. Compare current prices and use the request examples on this page to get started.
Use the backend model ID claude-fable-5-thinking-high when sending requests. Availability and performance are shown only when the public metrics APIs return recent data.
MODALITIES
Playground
Try Claude Fable 5 (thinking-high alias) in the API Need Playground.
Provider
Current API Need routing.
Pricing
Current selling prices in USD. Channel and group adjustments are already included. A range means available routes have different prices.
Input$7.5 – $10.5 / 1M
Output$37.5 – $52.5 / 1M
Cache read$0.75 – $1.05 / 1M
Cache write$9.375 – $13.125 / 1M
Cache write · 1 hour$15 – $21 / 1M
Web search$7.5 – $10.5 / 1K calls
Availability
Recent public performance data for this model.
No model-specific availability history is published yet. A successful request is not an uptime guarantee.
Benchmarks
Editorial benchmark data is shown when this model has a verified match.Intelligence uses the source’s median-score ranking. Efficiency views are APINEED calculations, not official LLM2014 rankings. Test costs and reference prices are converted at ¥7 per US dollar; they are not APINEED selling prices. Missing values are N/A. These results describe the source’s tested configurations, not guaranteed APINEED endpoint performance.
| 1st | GPT-5.5 (xhigh) | 80.23 | 73.89 | 7.9% | 534s | 33,219 | $27.51 | $29.57 |
| 2nd | GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) | 78.37 | 69.42 | 11.42% | 381s | 17,769 | $14.71 | $29.57 |
| 3rd | Kimi-K3 (max) | 75.77 | 67.66 | 10.7% | 1144s | 41,432 | $17.40 | $15.00 |
| 4th | Claude Opus 5 (xhigh) | 71.24 | 64.74 | 9.12% | 437s | 26,705 | $18.43 | $24.64 |
| 5th | GLM-5.3 (max) | 74.48 | 63.91 | 14.19% | 1009s | 57,408 | $6.43 | $4.00 |
| 6th | GLM-5.3-Flash (max) | 69.55 | 60.52 | 12.98% | 863s | 38,787 | $0.22 | $0.20 |
| 7th | Qwen3.8-Max (xhigh) | 64.68 | 60.05 | 7.16% | 1297s | 65,135 | $9.38 | $5.14 |
| 8th | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813(max) | 70.13 | 59.63 | 14.97% | 1601s | 73,350 | $7.92 | $3.86 |
| 9th | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (max) | 62.86 | 58.10 | 7.57% | 974s | 79,420 | $2.86 | $1.29 |
| 10th | Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) | 66.62 | 57.56 | 13.6% | 131s | 26,596 | $2.75 | $3.70 |
| 11th | Grok 4.6 (high) | 67.93 | 56.41 | 16.96% | 813s | 33,807 | $5.60 | $5.91 |
| 12th | Gemini 3.1 Pro (high) | 69.35 | 55.84 | 19.48% | 235s | 28,338 | $9.39 | $11.83 |
| 13th | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) | 66.34 | 55.23 | 16.75% | 881s | 74,657 | $2.69 | $1.29 |
| 14th | GLM-5.2 (max) | 66.53 | 54.70 | 17.78% | 891s | 46,273 | $5.18 | $4.00 |
| 15th | Qwen3.8-Flash (xhigh) | 65.44 | 54.49 | 16.73% | 844s | 64,942 | $0.70 | $0.39 |
| 16th | GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh) | 65.92 | 51.62 | 21.69% | 247s | 37,885 | $1.25 | $1.18 |
| 17th | Qwen3.8-27B (xhigh) | 58.48 | 47.65 | 18.52% | 2318s | 73,987 | $3.55 | $1.71 |
| 18th | Doubao-Seed-2.1-pro (high) | 55.12 | 45.78 | 16.94% | 2026s | 85,238 | $10.23 | $4.29 |
| 19th | Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) | 57.93 | 45.14 | 22.08% | 359s | 47,209 | $5.54 | $4.19 |
| 20th | Gemini 3.7 Flash (low) | 53.50 | 44.06 | 17.64% | 59s | 10,673 | $1.10 | $3.70 |
| 21st | Claude Sonnet 5 (xhigh) | 47.80 | 39.57 | 17.22% | 545s | 45,066 | $12.44 | $9.86 |
| 22nd | Tencent Hy3 (high) | 57.89 | 39.51 | 31.75% | 1076s | 53,214 | $0.85 | $0.57 |
| 23rd | Qwen3.7-Plus (high) | 51.36 | 38.74 | 24.57% | 1254s | 58,610 | $1.88 | $1.14 |
| 24th | MiniMax-M3 | 43.83 | 37.37 | 14.74% | 982s | 57,486 | $1.93 | $1.20 |
| 25th | Doubao-Seed-2.0-lite 0428 (high) | 34.13 | 26.18 | 23.29% | 669s | 27,845 | $0.40 | $0.51 |
| 26th | Claude Opus 5 | 34.94 | 24.58 | 29.65% | 156s | 10,261 | $7.08 | $24.64 |
| 27th | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (high) | 29.51 | 20.44 | 30.74% | 192s | 17,842 | $1.23 | $2.46 |
| 28th | Ling-3.0-flash | 28.37 | 17.05 | 39.9% | 735s | 95,538 | N/A | N/A |
| 29th | Gemma 4 31B | 21.36 | 16.09 | 24.67% | 756s | 15,290 | $0.17 | $0.39 |
| 30th | openPangu-2.0-Pro | 20.02 | 15.75 | 21.33% | 645s | 28,215 | $1.64 | $2.07 |
| 31st | Qwen3.7-Plus | 20.84 | 15.63 | 25% | 323s | 8,910 | $0.29 | $1.14 |
| 32nd | GPT-5.5 Instant | 21.73 | 14.09 | 35.16% | 28s | 1,712 | $1.42 | $29.57 |
| 33rd | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 17.25 | 13.87 | 19.59% | 200s | 28,129 | $5.82 | $7.39 |
| 34th | Step-3.7-Flash | 26.18 | 13.74 | 47.52% | 282s | 47,180 | $1.53 | $1.16 |
| 35th | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | 26.31 | 13.00 | 50.59% | 550s | 33,095 | $0.79 | $0.86 |
| 36th | Dots3-Note Preview | 18.63 | 12.95 | 30.49% | 210s | 28,386 | N/A | N/A |
| 37th | ERNIE 5.1 | 16.32 | 11.32 | 30.64% | 468s | 24,522 | $1.77 | $2.57 |
| 38th | Qwen3.8-27B | 16.48 | 10.61 | 35.62% | 192s | 8,914 | $0.43 | $1.71 |
| 39th | openPangu-2.0-Flash | 19.24 | 10.16 | 47.19% | 583s | 29,052 | $0.19 | $0.23 |
| 40th | LongCat-2.0 | 17.61 | 9.74 | 44.69% | 374s | 14,273 | $0.46 | $1.14 |
| 41st | Claude Sonnet 5 | 16.49 | 9.67 | 41.36% | 113s | 6,175 | $1.70 | $9.86 |
| 42nd | GLM-5.2 | 12.42 | 8.05 | 35.19% | 24s | 929 | $0.10 | $4.00 |
| 43rd | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 13.57 | 7.93 | 41.56% | 53s | 4,621 | $0.17 | $1.29 |
| 44th | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | 9.01 | 7.11 | 21.09% | 11s | 707 | $0.03 | $1.48 |
| 45th | Doubao-Seed-2.1-pro | 13.03 | 6.17 | 52.65% | 319s | 6,948 | $0.83 | $4.29 |
| 46th | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 8.45 | 5.93 | 29.82% | 18s | 2,589 | $0.54 | $7.39 |
Quick Start
Use /v1/messages with non-streaming output.
Create an API key
Store your APINEED API key in the API_NEED_API_KEY environment variable.
Send the request
curl 'https://apineed.com/v1/messages' \
-H "x-api-key: $API_NEED_API_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'anthropic-version: 2023-06-01' \
-d '{
"max_tokens": 1024,
"messages": [
{
"content": "Hello",
"role": "user"
}
],
"model": "claude-fable-5-thinking-high",
"stream": false
}'Read the response
Read the completed JSON response and check errors before using the output.
const response = await fetch("https://apineed.com/v1/messages", {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
"x-api-key": "" + (process.env.API_NEED_API_KEY ?? ''),
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"anthropic-version": "2023-06-01",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"max_tokens": 1024,
"messages": [
{
"content": "Hello",
"role": "user"
}
],
"model": "claude-fable-5-thinking-high",
"stream": false
}),
})
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(await response.text())
console.log(await response.json())Endpoints
Endpoints currently returned by the live pricing API.
POST
/v1/messagesNon-streaming- x-api-key
- API_NEED_API_KEY
- Content-Type
- application/json
- anthropic-version
- 2023-06-01
- HTTP-Referer
- optional - your site URL, for rankings
- X-Title
- optional - your site name, for rankings
- Model
- claude-fable-5-thinking-high
POST
/v1/messagesStreaming- x-api-key
- API_NEED_API_KEY
- Content-Type
- application/json
- anthropic-version
- 2023-06-01
- HTTP-Referer
- optional - your site URL, for rankings
- X-Title
- optional - your site name, for rankings
- Model
- claude-fable-5-thinking-high
POST
/v1beta/models/claude-fable-5-thinking-high:generateContentNon-streaming- x-goog-api-key
- API_NEED_API_KEY
- Content-Type
- application/json
- HTTP-Referer
- optional - your site URL, for rankings
- X-Title
- optional - your site name, for rankings
- Model in URL
- claude-fable-5-thinking-high
POST
/v1beta/models/claude-fable-5-thinking-high:streamGenerateContent?alt=sseStreaming- x-goog-api-key
- API_NEED_API_KEY
- Content-Type
- application/json
- HTTP-Referer
- optional - your site URL, for rankings
- X-Title
- optional - your site name, for rankings
- Model in URL
- claude-fable-5-thinking-high
POST
/v1/chat/completionsNon-streaming- Authorization
- Bearer API_NEED_API_KEY
- Content-Type
- application/json
- HTTP-Referer
- optional - your site URL, for rankings
- X-Title
- optional - your site name, for rankings
- Model
- claude-fable-5-thinking-high
POST
/v1/chat/completionsStreaming- Authorization
- Bearer API_NEED_API_KEY
- Content-Type
- application/json
- HTTP-Referer
- optional - your site URL, for rankings
- X-Title
- optional - your site name, for rankings
- Model
- claude-fable-5-thinking-high
POST
/v1/responsesNon-streaming- Authorization
- Bearer API_NEED_API_KEY
- Content-Type
- application/json
- HTTP-Referer
- optional - your site URL, for rankings
- X-Title
- optional - your site name, for rankings
- Model
- claude-fable-5-thinking-high
POST
/v1/responsesStreaming- Authorization
- Bearer API_NEED_API_KEY
- Content-Type
- application/json
- HTTP-Referer
- optional - your site URL, for rankings
- X-Title
- optional - your site name, for rankings
- Model
- claude-fable-5-thinking-high
Parameters
Supported parameters are shown when verified metadata is available.
| Name | Type | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
model | string | Required | Use claude-fable-5-thinking-high. |
messages | array | Required | Conversation messages sent to the model. |
max_tokens | integer | Required | Maximum output tokens. |
Q&A
Common questions about the Claude Fable 5 (thinking-high alias) API.
Which model ID should I use for Claude Fable 5 (thinking-high alias)?
Use claude-fable-5-thinking-high, exactly as returned by the API Need pricing API.
Which endpoint should I use?
Send a POST request to /v1/messages using your APINEED API key. Follow the request example and parameter table on this page.
How is the API Need price calculated?
See Pricing for the current rates and discounts. Final charges use recorded usage.
How to deploy Claude Fable 5 (thinking-high alias)
Connect the live model to your application.
Top up
Add usage credit in the product app.
Create a key
Create and securely store an API key.
Configure the endpoint
Send requests to /v1/messages.
Monitor responses
Track status, latency, and errors in your application.