Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Large 3

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mistral AI's Mistral Large 3 compared on specs, pricing, and capabilities — as configured in AI Crucible ensembles.

Mistral Large 3 input tokens are 20.0x cheaper than Claude Fable 5 ($0.60 vs $12.00 per 1M tokens).
Mistral Large 3 output tokens are 33.3x cheaper than Claude Fable 5 ($1.80 vs $60.00 per 1M tokens).
Claude Fable 5 offers the larger context window: 1M tokens vs 256K tokens for Mistral Large 3.
Claude Fable 5 is a reasoning model that spends extra tokens thinking before answering; Mistral Large 3 responds directly.

Specification	Claude Fable 5	Mistral Large 3
Provider	Anthropic	Mistral AI
API model ID	claude-fable-5	mistral-large-latest
Description	Anthropic's most powerful model — a new tier above Opus for frontier reasoning, agents, and coding.	Mistral AI's flagship model with 41B active parameters, excelling at complex reasoning and multimodal tasks.
Context window	1M tokens	256K tokens
Max output tokens	32,768	8,192
Input cost ($/1M tokens)	$12.00	$0.60
Output cost ($/1M tokens)	$60.00	$1.80
Cache read cost ($/1M tokens)	$1.20	-
Latency	high	medium
Reasoning model	Yes	No
Vision (image input)	Yes	Yes
Tool use	Yes	Yes