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New on the radar: Fable 5.2 appeared in OpenRouter catalog
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Our hourly sweep found an id that was not there an hour ago.
Catalog id: anthropic/claude-fable-5.2
Listed price: $8.00/$40.00 per 1M
Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
First observed by our sweep: 2026-11-09 19:14 UTC
Source: OpenRouter catalog
This entry is machine-written from what the sweep actually read, and nothing else. A catalog listing is a primary source for exactly one narrow fact — that this id now exists, at this price, with this context window — and it is not evidence of anything beyond that. It does not tell you the model is good, that the listing is intentional, that the weights are open, or that the vendor has announced it. Those questions need a human and an editor's judgement, and this item deliberately does not answer them.
It maps to Fable 5.2, already on our watchlist — registry note: unannounced · Nov 9: AWS's public Price List API (Bedrock foundation-model file published 18:09:52 UTC) lists 'Claude Fable 5.2 (Amazon Bedrock Edition)', provider Anthropic, at $8 / $40 per 1M global ($8.80 / $44 in-region), cache reads $0.20, cache writes $10 (5 min) / $16 (1 h), in 35 regions: 20% below Fable 5.1's $10 / $50 · first spotted by @tensorson (18:19 UTC), relayed by @Mr_Salio and @LuminaBench · at 18:50 UTC Anthropic's models overview and pricing pages still top out at Fable 5.1, and no 5.2 id is on OpenRouter or models.dev · first armed on Anthropic's point-release cadence.
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