Claude Fable 5 vs Kimi K3

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

Metric
Claude Fable 5Anthropicanthropic/claude-fable-5
Kimi K3MoonshotAImoonshotai/kimi-k3
Creator
Anthropic
MoonshotAI
Released
Jun 9, 2026
Jul 16, 2026
Context window
1M
1.05M (best)
Max output
128K
1.05M (best)
Input / 1MLowest provider price
$10.00
$2.70$2.70–$3.00 across 4 (best)
Output / 1MLowest provider price
$50.00
$13.50$13.50–$15.00 across 4 (best)
Providers
1
4 (best)
IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index
49.6 (best)
43.6
CodingArtificial Analysis index
76.5 (best)
76.2
LatencyMedian time to first token
14s
7.4s (best)
ThroughputMedian tokens per second
<1 t/s (best)
<1 t/s
Accepts
Text, Image, Files
Text, Image
Produces
Text
Text
Tool calling
Yes
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
No

Claude Fable 5 vs Kimi K3: summary

Claude Fable 5 and Kimi K3 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, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window, costs $10.00/1M input and $50.00/1M output tokens and scores 49.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Kimi K3, from MoonshotAI, has a 1,048,576-token context window, costs from $2.70/1M input and $13.50/1M output tokens across 4 providers and scores 43.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Kimi K3 is the cheapest on input, 3.7× cheaper than the next model, Kimi K3 has the largest context window, Claude Fable 5 scores highest for intelligence, Claude Fable 5 leads on coding and Claude Fable 5 has the highest throughput.

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", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="moonshotai/kimi-k3", messages=[...])
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