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Claude Fable 5 vs DeepSeek R1 0528

Claude Fable 5 grades higher overall (90.7 against 70.6). DeepSeek R1 0528 costs 95% less for the same work.

Claude Fable 5

by Anthropic · #3 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$10.00
Output / 1M
$50.00

DeepSeek R1 0528

by DeepSeek · #29 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
160K
Input / 1M
$0.50
Output / 1M
$2.15

Better overall

Claude Fable 5

Grade 90.7 vs 70.6

Cheaper

DeepSeek R1 0528

95% less, $0.91 vs $20.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Fable 5

1M vs 160K tokens

SWE-bench Verified

Claude Fable 5

95% vs 57.6%

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,503
DeepSeek R1 0528DeepSeek R1 0528: 1,421
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,624
DeepSeek R1 0528DeepSeek R1 0528: —
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,551
DeepSeek R1 0528DeepSeek R1 0528: 1,464
Aider Polyglot% of exercises solved · Aider (aider.chat) · Jun 6, 2025
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: —
DeepSeek R1 0528DeepSeek R1 0528: 71.4%
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 95%v
DeepSeek R1 0528DeepSeek R1 0528: 57.6%v
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 80%v
DeepSeek R1 0528DeepSeek R1 0528: —
Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
DeepSeek R1 0528DeepSeek R1 0528: —
LiveCodeBenchpass@1, % · LiveCodeBench · May 29, 2025 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: —
DeepSeek R1 0528DeepSeek R1 0528: 73.3%v

Claude Fable 5DeepSeek R1 0528v = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Claude Fable 5$4,000 /month
DeepSeek R1 0528$186 /month

DeepSeek R1 0528 saves you $3,814 a month at this usage, $45,768 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Fable 5DeepSeek R1 0528
Made byAnthropicDeepSeek
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 90.7Excellent · 70.6
Overall rank#3 of 67#29 of 67
Input price$10.00 per 1M$0.50 per 1M
Output price$50.00 per 1M$2.15 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens163,840 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesNo
Reads imagesYesNo
Model IDclaude-fable-5deepseek-r1-0528

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key
# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-fable-5", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "deepseek-r1-0528", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Fable 5 or DeepSeek R1 0528 better?

Claude Fable 5 grades 90.7 against 70.6 for DeepSeek R1 0528, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or DeepSeek R1 0528?

DeepSeek R1 0528: $0.50 in and $2.15 out per million tokens, against $10.00 and $50.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Fable 5, with 1,000,000 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Aider (aider.chat), SWE-bench, Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, LiveCodeBench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.