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Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Claude Fable 5 Mistral Medium 3.5
Input cost / 1M $10.00 $1.50
Output cost / 1M $50.00 $7.50
Context window 1,000,000 tokens 256,000 tokens
MMLU score

Cost verdict

Enter monthly input and output volumes to see total cost savings.

Claude Fable 5

Input: 1M × $10.00 = $10.00
Output: 1M × $50.00 = $50.00
Total
$60.00

Mistral Medium 3.5

Input: 1M × $1.50 = $1.50
Output: 1M × $7.50 = $7.50
Total
$9.00

Total cost savings

$51.00

Mistral Medium 3.5 saves $51.00 per month vs the other model at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. Claude Fable 5 is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); Mistral Medium 3.5 handles routine traffic.

Premium model

Claude Fable 5

$10.00 in · $50.00 out / 1M

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Economical model

Mistral Medium 3.5

$1.50 in · $7.50 out / 1M

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All premium

Claude Fable 5

$3,000.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%Mistral Medium 3.5

Claude Fable 5

$960.00

Routine slice
$360.00
Premium slice
$600.00

Monthly savings

$2,040.00

68% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (claude-fable-5, mistral-medium-3-5) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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