Processing 250 lines of code (~2,800 tokens) with Claude Fable 5 costs $0.028 for codebase ingestion and $0.056 for an AI-powered code review and refactoring pass.
Feed 250 lines of code into the prompt context for repository search, Q&A, or architecture planning.
Ingest 250 lines of code and generate audit findings, unit test recommendations, and refactor diffs.
Claude Fable 5 writes 250 lines of code from scratch based on product specifications.
| Model | Provider | Code Ingestion | Cached Ingestion | Code Review Cost | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5 (Current) | anthropic | $0.028 | $0.0028 | $0.056 | 1,000,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | openai | $0.0128 | $0.001275 | $0.0281 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Cyber | openai | $0.0319 | $0.003188 | $0.0701 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.5 Standard | openai | $0.0128 | $0.001275 | $0.0281 | 512,000 |
| GPT-5.5 Pro | openai | $0.0765 | $0.00765 | $0.1683 | 512,000 |
| o3-pro (Frontier Reasoning) | openai | $0.051 | $0.0051 | $0.0918 | 1,000,000 |
On average, code yields approximately 11.2 tokens per line in Claude Fable 5 (claude_bpe tokenizer). Indentation, brackets, camelCase variable names, and comments slightly increase token density compared to plain English text. 250 lines of code produces approximately 2,800 tokens.
Sending 250 lines of code as context and generating a thorough code review with recommendations costs approximately $0.056. Utilizing prompt caching on repeat turns or static repository definitions drops this to $0.0308.
Claude Fable 5 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens. 250 lines of code consumes 0.28% of its total available context.