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| Attribute | Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking)claude-opus-4-6-thinking | Claude Fable 5.1claude-fable-5.1 | GPT-6 Astragpt-6-astra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $4.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Output | $20.00 / 1M | $50.00 / 1M | $50.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $5.00 / 1M | $12.50 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $8.00 / 1M | $20.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.40 / 1M | $1.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable model for coding and long-running professional workflows, designed for agents that operate across entire workflows rather than single prompts. It demonstrates strong performance on large codebases, complex refactoring, and multi-step debugging, with improved contextual understanding, deeper problem decomposition, and higher reliability on challenging engineering tasks compared to earlier generations. Beyond software development, Opus 4.6 excels at sustained knowledge work, producing near production-ready documents, technical plans, and analyses in a single pass while maintaining coherence across long outputs and extended sessions. Its strength in persistence, judgment, and structured execution makes it well suited for technical design, migration planning, and end-to-end project execution. | Claude Fable 5.1 is an upgraded version of Fable 5, delivering broad improvements with particularly strong gains in agentic coding, long-running workflows, and professional knowledge work. It excels at large code refactors, front-end and visual code generation, financial analysis, and complex analytical tasks. Compared with Fable 5, it also produces more concise plans and summaries while maintaining strong performance across extended tasks, making it a natural upgrade for existing Fable workflows and a strong option alongside Opus 5 for reasoning-intensive applications. | GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's flagship model for demanding end-to-end professional work, designed for advanced analysis, software engineering, deep research, scientific tasks, and document creation. It is particularly strong in long-horizon agentic workflows, including tasks that require sustained reasoning, tool orchestration, and computer and browser use, making it well suited for complex autonomous workflows and production-grade knowledge work. |