Claude Fable 5.2 status: as of 2026-10-08 the live Fable model in the official table is still claude-fable-5-1 (2026-09-01)
No 5.2 row anywhere on the official page
As of 2026-10-08, the official model overview still has no Claude Fable 5.2: the live Fable row is claude-fable-5-1, releasedOn 2026-09-01, lifecycle active. What Anthropic added since 2026-09-18 is Opus 5.5 (2026-09-22), Sonnet 5.5 (2026-09-28) and Haiku 5.5 (2026-10-07) — no 5.2 id, date or price.
Updated 2026-10-08
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Four key points
Official live id
The Fable row the comparison table currently lists; the API id sits on it.
Official releasedOn
Fable 5.1's release date in the table data, lifecycle active.
Official source for 5.2
No claude-fable-5-2 in the table, id list or API docs.
Checked on
This page rests on the official model table, release notes, pricing page and deprecations page captured that day.
What this is
"Claude Fable 5.2" is a label circulating off-site; as of 2026-10-08 the official model overview has no matching row. Anthropic does ship minor versions — the Legacy list on the same page includes claude-fable-5 and claude-opus-4-5 through claude-opus-4-8 — so "5.2" is not an impossible name. But as checked on 2026-10-08 the comparison table's four columns are claude-fable-5-1, claude-opus-5-5, claude-sonnet-5-5 and claude-haiku-5-5, with a single Fable row, claude-fable-5-1 (releasedOn 2026-09-01), and no 5.2 row, id, date or price.
What happened
Checked 2026-10-08: the comparison table in the official overview now has four columns — Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Haiku 5.5. The three added since the previous check on 2026-09-18 all belong to the 5.5 family: Opus 5.5 (releasedOn 2026-09-22), Sonnet 5.5 (2026-09-28) and Haiku 5.5 (2026-10-07). Fable is still claude-fable-5-1 (releasedOn 2026-09-01, retirementNotBefore 2027-09-01); claude-opus-5 has moved to the Legacy list on the same page.
Timeline
2026-07-24 Claude Opus 5 went GA as claude-opus-5 (releasedOn 2026-07-24).
2026-09-01 Claude Fable 5.1 went GA as claude-fable-5-1, the Fable row in today's table.
2026-10-08 capture of the official table: Opus 5.5 (2026-09-22), Sonnet 5.5 (2026-09-28) and Haiku 5.5 (2026-10-07) have been added, Fable still has only claude-fable-5-1, and there is no claude-fable-5-2 row.
Confirmed vs caution
Officially confirmed
Official model overview (checked 2026-10-08): the Fable generation is claude-fable-5-1, releasedOn 2026-09-01, retirementNotBefore 2027-09-01, lifecycle active; the table's other three columns are Opus 5.5 (releasedOn 2026-09-22), Sonnet 5.5 (2026-09-28) and Haiku 5.5 (2026-10-07), all four lifecycle active. The previous Opus, Opus 5 (claude-opus-5), now sits in the Legacy list on the same page.
⚠️ Caution
Any evidence that "5.2 already exists somewhere" sits outside official documentation — the model table, release notes, pricing page and deprecations page captured 2026-10-08 contain no Fable 5.2 or claude-fable-5-2. This page draws no conclusion from screenshots and states no date, capability or price for 5.2.
Same vs differs
Same
claude-fable-5-1 and claude-opus-5-5 (released 2026-09-22) both sit in the official comparison table with API id, releasedOn and retirementNotBefore (no earlier than 2027-09-01 and 2027-09-22 respectively).
Differs
claude-fable-5-2 has none of the three: no row, no API id, no lifecycle fields.
What to do
For a Fable tier, set claude-fable-5-1. If you are waiting for 5.2, make "a new row appears in the official model table" your only trigger. Never paste an id from a screenshot into code — it fails outright.
On QCode
claude-fable-5-1 is on sale on QCode with real 30-day traffic. claude-fable-5-2 is unreleased, so there is no id to add; availability follows /models.
FAQ
Has Claude Fable 5.2 shipped?
Per the comparison table on the official model overview, no, as of 2026-10-08. That table carries one Fable row — claude-fable-5-1, releasedOn 2026-09-01 — and the newer additions are Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5, while older ids sit in the Legacy list on the same page.
Which id do I set?
claude-fable-5-1. It appears both in Anthropic's table and in QCode's /models, so it is callable.
Where does "5.2" come from?
Off-site discussion; there is no matching row in Anthropic's documentation. We do not reproduce specific screenshots or conclude from them.
Will 5.1 be replaced by 5.2?
The table gives claude-fable-5-1 a retirementNotBefore field and says nothing about 5.2. That field promises "not before", not a successor.
Do Fable and Opus follow the same numbering?
Both lines do ship minor numbers: the official page lists claude-fable-5 next to claude-fable-5-1 (releasedOn 2026-09-01), and the Opus 4 generation runs claude-opus-4-5 through claude-opus-4-8 in Legacy. So "5.2 is impossible" has no official basis; what can be confirmed is that no 5.2 row exists as of 2026-10-08.
When does this page go stale?
The moment a new Fable row appears in the official model table. The capture date — 2026-10-08 — is stated in Sources.
Sources
Anthropic's official model overview (platform.claude.com), the Claude Platform release notes, the pricing page and the model deprecations page, captured 2026-10-08. None of them lists claude-fable-5-2 or Fable 5.2. The previous check was on 2026-09-18.
Use the row that exists today
claude-fable-5-1 is callable on QCode, same key as opus and sonnet.
Related
Claude Fable 5.1 guide
Capabilities, id and usage for the live row.
Claude Opus 5.2 status
A separate rumour thread on another generation.
How to buy Claude API credits
Console prepaid credits, auto-reload, payment methods, one-year expiry and Max/Team monthly credits, compared with QCode top-ups.
This page separates three tiers: what the official model table confirms, the rumour and circulating "5.2" claims, and what stays unconfirmed — no official id, date or price. Unreleased models get no capability claims and no leaked benchmarks. Official pages were checked on 2026-10-08; the official pages prevail, and model availability is whatever /models shows.