Head-to-head
Ox Alpha vs Claude Fable 5
Fable 5 is the polished, expensive flagship. Ox Alpha matches it on context, comes remarkably close on quality, and costs nothing during preview.
Anthropic
Fable 5 is Anthropic's top-tier model — exceptional at hard coding and long-form writing, and priced for enterprises that treat quality as the only variable. Ox Alpha matches its 1M-token context, trades within a few points on the benchmarks, and does it for $0 while in stealth. If budget matters at all, the gap is hard to justify.
Side by side
The same figures from our full benchmark table, narrowed to two columns.
| Metric | Ox Alpha | Fable 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 59* | 62 |
| Agentic coding | 78* | 79 |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 131K | 64K |
| Throughput (tps) | 24* | 63 |
| Price / 1M out | $0 | $50 |
| Multimodal | ||
| Open weights | ||
| Free to use |
- Free during preview — Fable 5 runs about $50 per million output tokens
- Same 1M-token context window
- Roughly double the max output (131K vs 64K tokens)
- No account, no card, no VPN to get started
- A few points higher on composite intelligence
- A stable, officially-supported API with an SLA
- Best-in-class polish on long-form writing
Which should you choose?
You want frontier-class reasoning and a huge context for free, and you're comfortable running on a preview model.
You need a production guarantee today and price is not a constraint.
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