Amazon Nova Pro vs Claude Fable 5
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at cost efficiency (82 vs 55 on our capability index).
- •Claude Fable 5 is meaningfully stronger at coding (99 vs 68).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 92% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
- •Claude Fable 5 has a 1M context window vs 300K tokens - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | Claude Fable 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | Anthropic |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | 300K tokens | ✓1M |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $10.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $50.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Claude Fable 5 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| SWE-bench Verified | - | 95.0% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | - | 88.0% |
| GPQA Diamond | - | 92.6% |
| SWE-bench Pro | - | 80.3% |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Amazon Nova Pro if...
- →You are building on AWS and want native Bedrock integration
- →You need multimodal understanding of images or video plus text
- →You want a cost-balanced general model with a large context
- →You need enterprise controls: data residency, service tiers, prompt caching
Choose Claude Fable 5 if...
- →You need the absolute highest capability Anthropic offers for hard tasks
- →You run long, complex autonomous agents where quality compounds over many steps
- →You do frontier-level engineering, research, or analytics and cost is secondary
- →You want maximum accuracy on the toughest coding and reasoning benchmarks