Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo has the lowest input price. Per 1M input tokens: Claude Fable 5.1 from $10.00 and Mistral Nemo from $0.03.

Which has the larger context window, Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Nemo?

Claude Fable 5.1 has the largest context window: Claude Fable 5.1 1,000,000 tokens and Mistral Nemo 131,072 tokens.

Which is smarter, Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Nemo?

Claude Fable 5.1 scores highest on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: Claude Fable 5.1 47.0 and Mistral Nemo 5.2.

Can I switch between Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Nemo without changing my code?

Yes. All of them are served through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching is a change of the model parameter (anthropic/claude-fable-5.1, mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407).

Claude Fable 5.1 vs Mistral Nemo

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

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Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropicanthropic/claude-fable-5.1

Mistral Nemo MistralAImistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407

Creator

Anthropic

MistralAI

Released

Sep 1, 2026

Jul 19, 2024

Context window

131K

Max output

128K

16K

Input / 1MLowest provider price

$10.00

$0.03

Output / 1MLowest provider price

$50.00

$0.03

Providers

IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index

47.0

5.2

LatencyMedian time to first token

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3.3s

ThroughputMedian tokens per second

—

<1 t/s

Accepts

Text, Image, Files

Text

Produces

Text

Tool calling

Yes

Structured output

Yes

Reasoning

Yes

Claude Fable 5.1 vs Mistral Nemo: summary

Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Nemo are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

Claude Fable 5.1, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window, costs $10.00/1M input and $50.00/1M output tokens and scores 47.0 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Mistral Nemo, from MistralAI, has a 131,072-token context window, costs $0.03/1M input and $0.03/1M output tokens and scores 5.2 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Mistral Nemo is the cheapest on input, 333× cheaper than the next model, Claude Fable 5.1 has the largest context window and Claude Fable 5.1 scores highest for intelligence.

Switch with one line

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-fable-5.1", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407", messages=[...])

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